5th period

Sadly, last summer, one of my neighbors died. He worked on bi-planes during the time of the First World War. I can't remember if he was a piolot in the war. He also introduced my family to the Pearson Air Museum. His widow held an estate sale today and I bought some interesting vintage books from them.

The first book is a 1938 edition of The Oxford Anthology of American Literature.
It has works written by everyone from Common Sense to Washington Irving to Edgar Allan Poe to Ralph Waldo Emerson to Henry David Thoreau to Nathaniel Hawthorne to Herman Melville to Robert Frost to Earnest Hemmingway to TS Eliot, but not much beyond that. (I don't think Steinbeck had gained classic status yet, actually was just writing Grapes of Wrath when this book came out). One cool thing is that when it tells these author's life spans a lot of them had not yet ended. It's almost inconceivable for me to imagine these guys still being around.

I also bought an old copy of Taming of the Shrew and a 19-page book called the Specialist by some guy named Sale. It appears to have been popular during the Depression.

I also got an old book about dynamos and electrical principles such as Ohm's
Law. The book was printed in 1895! I bought it for about $2.
I also bought a geology book--old, but not that old--and a book called "The
Outline of Knowledge Vol. VIII" about chemistry, physics, electricity, medicine,
and mathematics. It was printed in 1924.
It is especially interesting to look at the section on radiation, which was written
essentially when all of that was just being discovered.
I have also failed to find a periodic chart in the book. I take it the periodic
table of the elements was not yet in popular use.