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• Newsreel
  [[Image:Newsreel_Title_Shot_-_First_pictures_of_Norway.jpg|thumb|right|alt=War in Norway|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Gt6hPuMaw&feature=player_embedd ...nce. In peacetime regarded as a form of light entertainment, during World War II, it gained national significance as the primary source of news images of
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• Heliograph
  ...reciation for its speed and durability , “The value of the Heliograph in war operations is becoming more apparent every day ; the message could not have ...manded, by the apparatus, to perform regulated mechanized movement. The US War Department Manuel (1910) stresses the need for “perfect adjustment” ach
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• Dance Card
  ...s application as a recreational and diversionary activity during the Civil War. Use of the dance card faded in the 20th century as dance became less gende
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• Underground Missile Silo
  * The '''underground missile silo''' is a relic from the Cold War that serves as a storage media for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICB ...to evolve with changing improvements on the design and function of nuclear war missiles dating from the Atlas F missile, Titan and Minuteman missiles.
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• Scopitone
  ...these musical cinematic gems have roots dating back to the start of World War II? And then they developed out of a "visual jukebox" called a Scopitone wh Invented in France right after World War Ⅱ, Scopitone were short 16mm films named after the modified jukeboxes the
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• Town Crier
  ...severing of relationships which would lead to an official proclamation of war. The herald would also be used to bear proposals of truce or armistice. ...n attributed to the Greek warrior Stentor, who played a part in the Trojan war and whose voice was said to be as powerful as the voices of 50 other men. T
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• Grand Guignol
  ..., disembowelment, and dismemberment. But the audience dwindled after World War II as real-life violence overshadowed that of the Grand Guignol, and the th ...nciful imagination. It is only when the horrors of the Holocaust and World War II become public that spectacular violence is no longer viewed as imaginat
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• Homosexual Closet
  ...h century America with the increased policing of sexuality related to Cold War conspiracy, the McCarthy trials, and the White Flight to the suburbs. The m ...elf-navigation of spy-vs-spy. The homosexual in the closet embodies a Cold War-style logic of mistrust, which Eva Horn defines as "the logic of one's own
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• Bootleg Video
  ...d to the US by means of espionage&mdash; it was not until the end of World War II that a German Magnetophon tape deck was discovered by army specialists a ...onto the world stage as <i>literally</i> a black box, the spoils of World War II. As far as dubbing (or duplicating video) is concerned, this act requir
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• Broadcasting
  ...stabilization as a result of the horror of World War I and entering World War II on all sides of the ideological spectrum. Mussolini was quoted as saying
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• Dime Museums
  ...te remediation of the private museums that emerged after the Revolutionary War. These private museums were operated by individuals hoping to earn a living ...act as a visual representation of the chaos of a country mired in a civil war, turned upsidedown by indistrialization and a city flooded with the immigra
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• Multiphone
  [[Image:Shyver-musicphone.jpg|300px|right|thumb| The pre-war model of the Multiphone, then called the "Music-Phone"]] [[Image:multiphone.jpg|300px|right|thumb| The post-war model of the Shyvers Multiphone [http://www.dyz.com/phones/multiphone.html]
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• Sundial
  ...re popular in France to create and maintain train schedules prior to World War I.
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• Traveling Medicine Show
  The minstrel shows began to lose favor as the Civil War raged on in the late 19th Century. Slavery and the African population was a
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• Optical Disc (First Generation)
  ...hone to produce high quality field recordings of anything from birdsong to war zones. Another group of early adopters was skiers and snowboarders. ATRAC c
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• Oramics
  ...Germany, and Italy had already been well underway (Hutton 49). During the war, Oram worked tirelessly, experimenting with electronic music production and
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• Bone Records
  During the Second World War in Eastern Europe, vinyl became an extremely expensive way of producing rec In the years after World War Two, Stalin tried to get rid of any American influence on Soviet civilizati
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• Colossus Computer
  ...l object, as it has recently been 'restored' as part of a museum for World War II code breaking at Bletchley Park. ...ley Park "never saw an actual Lorenz machine until right at the end of the war, but they had been breaking the Lorenz cipher for two and a half years" (Sa
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• Sega Home Video Game Consoles
  ...inball machines as entertainment from the US” (De Peuter 91) after World War II. Rosen Enterprises merged with another American/Japanese amusement comp
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• Sony Walkman
  ...nomic militarism, effectively allowing the ‘defeated “victim” of the war [to] rise again and rejoin the “victor” in a new competition, the compe Set within the legacy of the Cold War arms race, the technological development that underpins the development of
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