Channel: Midway to Main Street

Category: Education

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Description: Boardwalk amusements like Coney Island and Atlantic City were the home of fun games, fun rides, and fun shows. Nestled among the Midway, however, were exhibits that featured premature babies who were being saved thanks to incubators, and thanks to a man named Martin Couney. New here? Be sure to subscribe! 🔷goo.gl/x17zTL Become a Producer on Patreon! ❤patreon.com/RobPlays My Disney Podcast! 🎧ttapodcast.com Follow me on Twitter! 📱Twitter.com/MidwayToMainSt Sources “What is the infant incubator exhibit?” The Atlantic City Experience "Young's Pier - Infant Incubators." Press of Atlantic City. 3 July 1905. Jack Klein. "When Premature Babies were 'Stars' on Atlantic City Boardwalk." Annals of Southern Jersey History. 7 October 1979 ‌“Coney Island’s Incubator Babies | JSTOR Daily.” JSTOR Daily, 15 Aug. 2018 “The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies” by Dawn Raffel ‌Vital and Social Statistics in the United States at the Eleventh Census 1890. Part III. Statistics of Deaths. 1894. 1033 pp.