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• Pneumatic Tubes
  ...ally pieces of mail had to fit within a pneumatic tube parcel or otherwise travel by regular post. While this limitation may not seem too pressing, since ot ...pneumatic tubes that caused people to want to jump inside and use them for travel, especially since steam engine trains were already invented? I think one m
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• Homing Pigeons
  ...ork Times''). It was dangerous for pigeons, especially during wartime, to travel long distances. One article reported, “If birds don’t return in two da
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• Panorama
  ...creating the illusion of an actual landscape, caters to this fondness for travel – this thirst to see and be in new places. The moving panorama in partic
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• Experiential Typewriter
  ...bers built by Leary to remove one from any definable place and allow 'time travel.'
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• Shorthand
  ...o the bald head of the messenger and, after the hair grew back, they would travel with a fake message to their destination. Upon arrival their heads would b
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• Credit Card Imprinter
  The Diners Club card, also known as a T&E (Travel & Entertainment) card was successful enough to expand to other cities and i
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• Marine Chronometer
  ...y had the peculiar impact of establishing a grid off which one could never travel - Although much of the globe remained to be explored and charted, the perfe
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• Viewmaster
  ...ration (GAF) and viewmaster reels made the complete shift from scenery and travel interests to entertainment, primarily for children.
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• Roentgen Ray Tube
  ...g the enemy from the internal space of the country or the liminal space of travel between national/state borders.
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• Nansen Passport
  ...s used during the period between World Wars I and II as identification and travel papers for refugees, initially given only to Russians fleeing the civil war ...of documentation had been used in pre-modern Europe to enable and regulate travel between locales, the modern passport required vast bureaucratic and technic
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• Medieval Mariner's Compass
  ...th and 14th centuries—would indicate, one of the major hindrances to sea travel was unpredictability of winds.
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• NASA Spoon-bowl
  ...component of maintaining the astronaut's psychological fabric during space travel. ...an idea that translated into the design of the smallest items for space travel, and is perhaps most profoundly visible in the packaging of food.
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• Tamagotchi
  ...n a suitcase to bring it with him, Yokoi sought to make a "pet" that could travel everywhere, and thus the Tamagotchi was born. The toy was composed of an LC
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• Picturephone
  ...l as demonstration of the product without cost (both of time and money) or travel. Although it might have been costly to use the booths, it made sense for b ...eady been speculated by Eastern Airlines that Picturephones might help the travel industry, with the need for business trips being negated and runways being
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• Stock Ticker Machine
  ...r own flaws, however. Laws's original gold price-indicator was not able to travel very long distances and required a local battery to operate. Calahan and Ed
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• Nickelodeon
  ...cenic tours” were also of popular interest. Theatres would play rolls of travel pictures, which allowed the audience to feel that they were passing by the
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• Marginalia
  ...and they use it to share information about many things. Some people have travel blogs or blogs about their career or studies. This structure interestingly
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• Reverse Polish Notation
  ...ded to put them together into one number. Likewise, in a situation such as travel we only concern ourselves with ideas like “New York, Boston, bus” and n
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• Scopitone
  ...ctors' hands. And you can still find one out there, though you may have to travel a bit to find it. The Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, Tennessee has what the
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• Ether
  ...Just as sound waves travel through air, Maxwell hypothesized, light waves travel through and relative to the ether (Hawking 20). As John Durham Peters notes
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• Terra Incognita
  ...ically declares the points of the unknown, then there is the embarking and travel across the sea, culminating in the moment of visual contact and a claiming
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• Traveling Medicine Show
  ...then slip away leaving the crowd jilted. This is why medicine shows had to travel, because once a certain territory was worked over, or “burned up” as th ...ough sometimes they performed in opera houses (66). The medicine man would travel around in a special wagon covered in advertisements for “Wizard Oil” th
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• Passenger Dirigible
  ...amesake of the Zeppelin Company that produced German airships. Balloons as travel devices had existed earlier, but Zeppelin, during his time serving in both ...it was the Germans who truly excelled in the field of passenger dirigible travel (Hunsaker 432-3).
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