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3 giorni fa · Some of the most prominent members of the American social elite made the trip: 47-year-old real estate builder, businessman, and multimillionaire Colonel John Jacob Astor IV and his 18-year-old pregnant wife Madeleine were returning to the United States for their child's birth.
18 ore fa · His client was John Jacob Astor IV, a magnate who only a decade later famously perished aboard the Titanic and whose son Vincent was married to Brooke Astor, one of the most prominent socialites ...
4 giorni fa · Waldorf Astor's cousin and rival, John Jacob Astor IV, built a taller hotel next door four years later to outdo him. Eventually, the two hotels were joined together with a...
2 giorni fa · Eric Braeden as John Jacob Astor IV, a first-class passenger and the richest man on the ship. The film depicts Astor and his 18-year-old wife Madeleine (Charlotte Chatton) as being introduced to Jack by Rose in the first-class dining saloon.
18 ore fa · To fund his experiments, he convinced John Jacob Astor IV to invest $100,000 ($3,662,400 in today's dollars) to become a majority shareholder in the Nikola Tesla Company. Astor thought he was primarily investing in the new wireless lighting system. Instead, Tesla used the money to fund his Colorado Springs experiments.
4 giorni fa · The locomotive survives in decrepit condition today. Some tracks and the battery motor car were seen surviving into the 1990s (which is another Astor's private car). This little railroad operated for a time in the 1960s and possibly early 1970s as a tourist railroad by a subsequent land owner.
4 giorni fa · John Jacob Astor pledged $400,000 to create a reference library using the books from the great book collector and librarian Joseph Green Cogswell. In 1898, the Astor Library relocated to...
