We 21st century folks are so accustomed to doing everything electronically that we tend to forget about (or not even know about) the amazing mechanical devices our grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents and great-great-great-grandparents used to use. From music boxes to player pianos, musical clocks to orchestrions, barrel organs to self-playing violins, Read More …
In 2019 I returned to Bruchsal along with some of the same people from nine years earlier. Again, we were on an excursion from a VirtualTourist meeting in Karlsruhe, even though the website VirtualTourist had ceased to exist in 2017. All you loyal readers of my previous post Look ma, Read More …
Near the end of the Second World War, on March 1, 1945, Bruchsal was bombed for the first and only time. A thousand people died in that attack. The palace and the entire city were destroyed. Since the war was nearly over by that time, and resistance to the advancing Read More …