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• Shorthand
  ...ransmissions and intercept some information for themselves. In fact, this war can be seen as built upon nothing more than the fear and proper usage of St
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• Hollerith Punch Card
  ...d emancipation of enslaved descendants of Africans at the end of the Civil War (1861-1865). If there was any doubt before, race had become the primary... ...t_card_punching_section_WP_DCPL.jpg|thumb|left|All African American female war department office with white female supervisor in 1942]]
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• Viewmaster
  ...men would be more adept at spotting opposing forces in the dark. After the war, demand for viewmasters shot through the roof, and the production of reels Early uses of the viewmaster included World War II preparation and travel souvenirs, however companies soon analyzed the bu
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• Roentgen Ray Tube
  ...y (for better or worse) was harnessed by both medicine and technologies of war and security. Roentgen Ray Tubes were used in World War I to locate bullets and shrapnel in the bodies of wounded soldiers. Now x-
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• Nansen Passport
  ...el papers for refugees, initially given only to Russians fleeing the civil war that ultimately solidified Bolshevik power, but was eventually distributed ...ver the "indignities" of carrying passports while traveling. During World War I, however, it became expedient for states to control the emigration of pot
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• Medieval Mariner's Compass
  ...that “the global” was not a concept that emerged in the wake of World War II as many commentators have recently suggested. But in fact the compass wa
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• The Market
  ...nd drawing from Randy Martin's book, ''An Empire of Indifference: American War and the Financial Logic of Risk Management'', we propose that the death of Martin, Randy. 2007. An Empire of Indifference: American War and the Financial Logic of Risk Management. Durham and London: Duke Univers
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• Political Effigies
  ...nd those who attended his needs were treated quite well. Fortunately, the war ended and Lenin was able to return to the comfort of his Mausoleum (sadly,
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• Wire Recording
  ...manufacture them under the moniker "Marconi-Stille Recorder." When World War II began Britain needed to conserve steel, and wartime broadcasting require ===World War I===
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• Enigma machine
  ...trical engineer and inventor Arthur Scherbius in 1918 in the wake of World War I and the newfound need for cipher machines that made encryption faster and ...|left|Bletchley Park, England, home to Britain's codebreakers during World War II (Pincock 98). ]]
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• NASA Spoon-bowl
  ...n - a finish line to which they sprinted. Against the backdrop of the Cold War, the U.S. space program provided a platform upon which America could negoti ...spoon-bowl or the cultural familiarity of the Skylab tray. Though the Cold War continued for another twenty odd years, this partnership in space represent
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• Spirit Photography
  ...andon 4). Likely owing its popularity to pervasive grief from recent Civil War casualties, Spiritualism, or the belief that spirits of the dead residing i ...rce” (Jolly 70). Ectoplasm photographs peaked in popularity after World War I and concentrate on documenting a spirit’s “physical impact on the bod
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• Talking View-Master
  ...le with the end of the Great Depression and with the world on the brink of war. Thus, money and entertainment were scarce. However, the View-Master, marke
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• Nickelodeon
  ...verting the light back into sound was not perfected until the end of World War I. By then, the Western Electric Company had taken over the execution of De
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• Dymaxion House
  ...as the motivation for the next implementation of the Dymaxion house. World War II saw a huge need for cheap, durable houses which could withstand extreme ...y to provide incentive for it’s workers to stay in their employment post-war, and Fuller was satisfied with an order for two prototypes from the Air For
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• HD-DVD
  ...to an end on February 19, 2008 when Toshiba officially conceded the format war to Blu-ray. Belson, Ken. "Early Salvos in the High-Definition DVD Format War." The New York Times. 24, Nov. 2008. <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/24/tec
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• Analog/Digital Transition
  ...in the humanities are engaged: rethinking the common in the age of global war and neo-liberal Empire: "This perspective opens up a fundamentally new task
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• Smoke Signals
  ...has gone, what it has accomplished, and it communicates the message of its war/peace intentions</td> ...pipe is the sign of peace while an illustrated broken pipe is the sign of war.</td>
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• Ramelli's Bookwheel
  ...d power occurred all around him. Growing up, he was trained in the arts of war and mathematics by warlord Gian Giacomo de’ Medici. He soon developed int ...llustrated inventions and mechanisms for raising water, milling grain, and war time machines. Noted for originality, these inventions are also known for b
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• Duplicating Polygraph
  ...r, as it would have enabled me to preserve copies of my letters during the war, which to me would have been a consoling possession.''
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