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• Credit Card Imprinter
  ...ncy has now become almost completely technological, a matter of developing technology that can collapse the time between a sale and the verification of the card. ...cal range of their spending. Before the dominant problematic became one of technology, there were other problematics including the struggle over control of credi
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• Hollerith Punch Card
  ...chniques for tabulation required for statistical analysis. The Punch Card technology was a remediation of card catalogues, short hand writing systems, and the J ...for the invention. The lithograph, although not a direct precursor, was a technology that also reproduced visual patterns in the 19th century, with the prospect
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• Cathode Ray Tube
  ...n medicine, but many medical sociologists cite a shift in focus in medical technology from representational images to statistical modeling. "The digital image i ...t G. The High-Vacuum X-Ray Tube: Technological Change in Social Context. ''Technology and Culture'' vol. 38, no. 4: 852-890.
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• Stickerbooks
  This technology proved useful for a variety of outlets, not just for postages stamps, but a ...onging but also recess bragging rights to the latest in sticker trends and technology.
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• Viewmaster
  ...s applications have changed in the seven decades it has been produced, the technology has largely remained the same, circumventing some issues of compatibility. ...a reel directly, and was also the first to have a 'Lite Attachment'. The technology for the product is that of the stereoscopic dual vision transparency, which
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• Roentgen Ray Tube
  The early development of x-ray technology, beginning with the Roentgen Ray Tube in 1895, can be seen as a new way of ...lity of the act of representation. This is a useful way to think of x-ray technology in which electromagnetic radiation (a form of energy) goes through solid ma
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• The Victrola
  ...) The Victrola is a remediation of the Musical Box, using much of the same technology in its process of automation. The winding lever is present in the mechanica ...ng and reproduction. The Victrola took the successful elements from of the technology employed by both the early phonograph, and the gramophone. The phonograph w
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• Medieval Mariner's Compass
  ...ing magnetism for geomancy—the divination of land and topography, with a technology referred to as the “the south-pointing spoon.” The process of magnetiz ...se sailors? Did it come from intermediary Arab sailors who had brought the technology from the Far East? It is now agreed upon that the compass arrived in Europe
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• Hacking this assignment
  ...es, although the market is no longer embodied in a specific place or media technology. The question of death is discussed more explicitly on the pages, [[Mediati ...tory, and which are placed outside of that history? When approaching a new technology from a historical perspective, how might one decide which prior forms of me
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• Where do media go to die?
  ...you make use of a device whose interface no longer works with any existing technology? ...reproducible for it to be extinct? Indeed, the reproducible of a specific technology is what makes patents so important: the schematic itself must be protected.
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• Political Effigies
  ...workers and peasants who did not want to part with Lenin. The rudimentary technology would not hold his body for long, and when freezing became unfeasible due t ...t relations had soured and it was out of the question to share such prized technology. The Chinese had to turn instead to the Vietnamese for assistance, and cre
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• Skeuomorph, or the "click"
  ...? In other words, I am suggesting that materially inessential feature of a technology be co-opted into a necessity for artistic and political reasons.
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• Black box
  ...requires to a certain extent the opening of the black box surrounding the technology. A prime example of this is the "[[obvious]]," i.e. those aspects of the technology that are used due to the particular historical context of the development o
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• Car Phone
  ...he first installment of the mobile telephone, a pre-generation to cellular technology. ...hnological shortcomings of the mobile phone, but also a re-focusing of the technology on individual phone users, rather than telephony locales. (History of Mobil
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• Wire Recording
  ...f the telegraphone and what it was capable of which piqued the interest of technology writers, who were most interested in its use in relation to the telephone a ...recording in general was its broad applications. While almost all of the technology's uses never truly took root, the storage of audio data nevertheless ranged
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• Enigma machine
  ...codename Project ULTRA. These mathematicians used both high-speed machine technology as well as hand testing, to crack the code. By the early 1940’s, these m As Ratcliff posits, “Enigma…demonstrates how a new technology can quickly move from startlingly revolutionary to so familiar that its ope
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• Mood Ring
  ...meaning changed by temperature, basically--liquid crystals are the primary technology involved in 'thermochromic' and 'thermochromatic' media, and the basis for The technology has practical functions in medicine. It can be used to measure temperature
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• BeOS
  ==What BeOS said about technology==
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• NASA Spoon-bowl
  ...ish the space that yawns between the stars” (Clarke, 114). Communication technology had pulled people and countries tightly together; geographic expanses of Ea ...shuttle to escape the earth’s gravitational force. In other words, the technology for long-term travel was foreseeable, but they puzzled over the problem of
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• Architectural cyanotypes
  ...by diazo-type printing machines, which in turn was replaced by “advanced technology” (Bellis) invented by Xerox. Computer aided design (CAD), and specificall Earle, James H. Drafting Technology. (Reading, Mass: Addison Wesley Publishing Company; 1986)
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