The 1878 total solar eclipse was the first to cross Texas since the arrival of Europeans. Astronomers and locals eagerly awaited the celestial event, using smoked glass to observe it. This article explores the experiences of people during the eclipse and the significance of the event for Dallas.
The 1878 total solar eclipse was the first to cross Texas since the arrival of Europeans. The next one for Texas is coming April 8. Astronomers Leonard Waldo, R.W. Wilson, J.K. Rees, W.H. Pulsifer, F.E. Seagrave, Alfred Freeman and A.M. Britton wait to see the July 29, 1878, eclipse in Fort Worth.“All the morning people were seen carrying their pieces of smoked glass ,” a predecessor to modern eclipse glasses, wrote a Ross Avenue woman. The woman, N.L.
Belsterling, had made her pieces of glass herself, but newsboys were selling them across the country.“I, too, smoked my piece manfully — no, womanfully — at the risk of cut and burnt fingers, and succeeded in getting a piece well blackened,” she recalled in a letter. “Several scientific gentlemen,” she added, were on hand. Dallas was 36 years old and about to see its first total solar eclipse if the weather would cooperate. The cover of Harper's Weekly on Aug. 24, 1878, shows a drawing of observers taking in the celestial even
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