This Is How Designers Visualized The Last Full Eclipse 99 Years Ago
(World News Science)

The serendipitous passage of the moon directly between the sun and the Earth on August 21st has brought eclipse mania to the U.S. Over the past month, we’ve seen countless visualizations of the phenomenon, from interactive websites to 3D fly-throughs. The last time a full eclipse was visible from East to West Coast, it was 1918–and the newspapers of the day applied their own visualization techniques to explain the cosmic event to readers. advertisement The Washington Times, August 27th 1905. [Image: courtesy Library of Congress]I dug through the archives of the Library of Congress and found many examples of how newspapers depicted eclipses at the turn of the last...