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Category Archives: Technology
Edison’s Talking Dolls: “Little Monsters”
A government laboratory has worked a way to play back the recordings on fragile wax cylinders, which were the working vocals of the dolls made by Thomas Edison in 1890. Edison employed an army of hundreds of girls, (according to … Continue reading
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Tagged Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Company, Lowell Briggs, Maine, Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, nursery rhymes, Randall Stross, Robin & Joan Rolfs, talking dolls, The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World, There Was a Little Girl, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Ward Harris, wax, William W. Jacques
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Great Granny’s Cook Book & Modern Full-colour Printing
The first page of Great Granny’s 1947 copy of The American Woman’s Cook Book illustrates the beginning of modern full-colour printing, modern photoengraving and also speaks of the practice of food irradiation. However, the photos of the delightful, tantalizing Color PLATES weren’t printed in colour. … Continue reading
After the Ball – World’s 1st Adult Film
Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, (Paris: December 8, 1861 – January 21, 1938) was an illusionist and filmmaker famous for creating special effects such as dissolves, multiple exposure, hand-painted colour and time-lapse photography. Marie, is also know for the stop-trick, where he claimed he accidentally achieved … Continue reading
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Tagged A Trip to the Moon, After the Ball, Cabinet Fantastique of the Grévin Wax Museum, cinema, cinematography, Egypt Hall, Eugène Robert-Houdin, film, Hypnotist at Work, illusionist, John Nevil Maskelyne, London, magic, Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, New York, Paris, Peeping Tom at the Seaside, pornography, stag, stage acting, Star Film Company, The Impossible Voyage
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Record of a Sneeze – An Edison Kinetoscopic Film
The video you’re about to watch is the first movie to be copyrighted in the United States by The Edison Manufacturing Company – a company organized in 1889 by inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison. Record Of A Sneeze, was filmed … Continue reading
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