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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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• Mnemonics
  .... Today’s archive exists in the library or the personal computer, not in the depths of a well-ordered mind. ...d in the authority of the spoken word, and strove to represent and control the historically black-boxed functioning of human memory.
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• Teddy Ruxpin
  ...e]”), Teddy Ruxpin is an attempt at reconciling the estrangement between the sound and body of sonic recording (Gitelman, 173). [[Image:Teddy_Ruxpin.jpg ...orms, including Mother Goose and “Grubby,” a mythical caterpillar from the Ruxpin stories.''
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• Scopitone
  ...oped out of a "visual jukebox" called a Scopitone which was fashionable in the early 1960's. ...pop music in both France and the United States, the two main purveyors of the genre.
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• Liveness
  ...(of an event, performance, etc.) of being heard, watched, or broadcast at the time of occurrence.''</div> ...liveness (consider self check-out lines and the ease of ordering things on the internet), it is constructed, performance-oriented activities that are most
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• Polymath
  ...r Renaissance man was an expert at everything. He (as few women were given the chance to be educated to this degree) had total world knowledge and made di ...cused than the polymathic idea. This depth of knowledge has also destroyed the romantic notion of a cultural or literary [[canon]] by both extending and i
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• Broadcasting
  ...and self-promoting RCA's The Story of Television provides a background on the technical development of television broadcasting. (1956)]]] ...s from early United States naval reference to the "broadcast" of orders to the fleet (Hillard 3).
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• Textual Closure (Formal)
  ...ratextual frame such as the book cover, and its text cannot be modified on the discursive level of its original inscription. ...ncreasingly denaturalizing entrenched formal and textual assumptions about the printed word as it has evolved over it’s 500 year history since Gutenberg
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• Colossus Computer
  ...ined secret for over 30 years. Unlike the majority of technological media, the Colossus Computer was built with a singular purpose in mind, achieved its g ...t of German code, is a position not seen easily today. Perhaps this is why the Colossus can be easily forgotten, but deserves acknowledgement and remembra
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• Mix tape
  ...it is, though, I know I'm getting a slice of someone's life. Cassettes are the only format that can give you that.'' ...herently personal, either kept for oneself, or given to a friend or lover. The term "mixtape", however, also had special meaning in hip hop culture, in wh
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• Stained Glass Window
  ...holastic philosophy of the thirteenth century and probably earlier. It was the most highly prized of medieval visual qualities. (Reyntiens 1990, 20)</bloc ...rteenth centuries and draw primarily from French ecclesial architecture of the time.
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• Sony Walkman
  [[File:Walkman-1979.gif|200px|thumb|right|The first Walkman model, TPS L2 released in 1978]] ...estingly, it was both design and marketing that seemed to most notably set the Walkman apart from previous iterations of personnel listening equipment.
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• Bertillon System
  ...aces.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Classification guideline for facial features in the Bertillon system]] ...that believe that they have not said anything at all if they have not said the word ‘body’ a hundred times.” –Friedrich Kittler (2010, 148)
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• Limewire
  ...n monthly users who downloaded over three billion songs per month. Through the years over 160 updated versions of LimeWire were released, most of which on ...troduced the "browse host" feature. This allowed the user to view all of the shared files on other user's computers, so that one could download several
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• Language of Flowers
  ...y, myth, reality, uses, and remediations of The Language of Flowers during the Victorian era in France, England and America. ...messages were supposedly derived from words that rhymed with the names of the objects. (Seaton 62)
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• Drive-In Theater
  ...ese theaters decreased greatly during the latter part of the 20th century, the drive-ins act collectively as a unique and significant artifact of America [[Image:First.jpg|350px|thumb|left|A photo of one of the first drive-in's built by Richard M. Hollingshead in Camden (eastcamdenword
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• Passenger Dirigible
  ...the present as a form of brand presence and advertising, most notably with the Goodyear Corporation. ...saster of 1937, killing 35 people and effectively destroying confidence in the airship as a viable form of transportation.
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• Dirty Media
  ...nerations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living." –Marx, ''The Eighteenth Brumaire'' ...oduction. It will soon be obsolete, ready to be burned in order to harvest the precious metals inside. It will soon turn into toxic dust. This is a dossie
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• Postmortem Photography
  ...ally faded in popularity (both in America and Europe) in the early part of the 20th century. ...hers. Like portraiture, it was at first accomplished almost exclusively by the daguerreotype process.
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• Paperdolls
  ...painted in color. Others were printed in black and white, to be colored by the buyer. “(Ibid, 63) ...n the colorful and pristine condition that delighted young collectors when the dolls made their debut.” (Johnson, 2010: 20)
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