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• Pneumatic Tubes
  ...ylindrical containers carrying small items (i.e. mail) are sent, driven by the force of compressed air, which is usually generated by an engine or water. ==The Beginnings: Pressurized Air and Patents==
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• Polaroid Camera
  [[Image:Film1.jpg|thumb|right|Edwin Land and the First Synthetic Sheet Polarizer (Save Polaroid)]] ...eral" (Save Polaroid). This technology enabled not only the development of the Polaroid camera but sunglasses, 3-D glasses, glare-reducing glass and windo
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• Player Piano
  ...fingers to play the keyboard of an ordinary piano. This device was called the Pianista and was literally a piano playing another piano (Roehl 2). ...ely halted and the popularity for automated musical instrument gave way to the 'inner piano.'
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• Notificator
  ...tic machine…to be installed at stations and other suitable sites, and on the insertion of two pennies facilities were given for writing a message that r [[Image:Notificator.JPG|thumb|right|The Notificator]]
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• Panorama
  ...of objects, where the eye reached to a horizon, and there being no limit, the illusion was complete” (Foucand 94). Bottom-Right Image: The diagram of a panorama (Grau 367).
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• Minitel
  ...s as a selling point. (Carey 33) In this way Teletext was able to bridge the gap between mass electronic media which had incredible circulation and prin ...ity to get online help from teachers for a specified period of time during the evening (Housel 44) <br>
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• NeXT Step
  ...this OS system that saved Apple Corporation and ensured their dominance in the computer market. ...w media which die and which are preserved when software is cannibalized in the process of creating new software.
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• Electric Pen
  ...hands A.B. Dick of Chicago who developed the next reduplication invention: the mimeograph. ...as a success for Edison that sold well and was liked. Any post prepared by the electric pen qualified as third class mail at one cent per ounce.
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• Stickerbooks
  ...LE IS IN PROGRESS - IT WILL BE UP IN ITS PROPER FORM SHORTLY! APOLGIES FOR THE INCONVENIENCE ...t sticker. Penny Blacks were sold in un-perforated sheets to be affixed by the sender. As with today’s decorative stickers, design was critical in early
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• The Market
  ...nsights into a story of the concentration and distillation of culture into the symbolic content of later media which house cultural remains. ...might also best be understood as an attempt to bridge our understanding of the isolation of
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• Dumbwaiter
  ...ining room furniture intended to dispense with the services of a waiter at the table.' Its first American usage in 1847, however, includes mention of a sy ...ece furniture that is static, privatizing, and decorative in its function; the other, a technology that is dynamic, utilitarian, and ultimately democratiz
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• Tamagotchi
  [[File:colortamas.gif|300px|thumb|right|The fact that Tamagotchis came in different colors added to their appeal. [Imag ...anaged to be incredibly engaging and entertaining. Multiple generations of the toy were manufactured, and it was also mimicked by several different compan
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• Talking View-Master
  ...gh the film from behind to give you the illusion that you’re standing in the middle of a real scene!'' [[Image: ViewMasterMan.jpeg|thumb|left| William Gruber, inventor of the View-Master (Walsh 57). ]]
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• Nickelodeon
  [[Image:Outside.jpg|thumb|right|The outside of a Nickelodeon.]] ...s audiences, the appeal of Nickelodeons extended into the upper classes as the years progressed. Nickelodeons also proved helpful in connecting members of
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• Marginalia
  ...are students or harried book-reviewers). Sometimes we scribble a note in the margin. But how few of us write marginalia in Erasmus's or Coleridge's sen - ''George Steiner, The Uncommon Reader''
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• Old Color Spaces
  ...that color to another person, and hav[ing] that person correctly reproduce the color we perceive" (Konica Minolta 1). '''HSB or The “Three Dimensions” of Color'''
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• Dymaxion house max
  =The Failure of A House is a Labor of Love= ...of all time, Fuller forgot basic necessities, by structurally dis-allowing the "nooks and crannys," of a true home by removing all choice and flaws from a
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• Signet Ring
  ...ve any function. The ring also brings up several important questions about the way in which media becomes part of ourselves.[[Image:Signetringandseal.jpg| ...e pressed in clay as a symbol of one's ownership or authorization, akin to the modern-day signature.
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• HyperCard
  ...Bill Atkinson who also created the MacPaint application and helped develop the Macintosh graphical user interface (GUI). We have entered the age of hyper-reality.
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• Phonodeik
  ...agram.png|thumb|right|alt=Principal of the Phonodeik|Image 1: Principal of the Phonodeik <i>Sound Waves: Their Shape and Speed</i> p.11]] ...at changed the way that humans perceived sound. The observer is changed by the technique of ‘listening’ through image.
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