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• Mystical Writing Pad
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• Letter Writing
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• Start a New Dossier
  ...ximately 2-5 thematic category tags. So if the dossier concerns the visual writing of sound, you would add the following three lines: :<code><nowiki>[[Category:Writing]]</nowiki></code>
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• Flatness
  ...om the top would crush the scrolls, which fell to the bottom. Slate or wax writing tablets offered an additional convenient option, particularly for note taki ...aw, became more intricate in their operations. "A new way of binding or of writing things down, a change in the way data are collected, affects the legal fram
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• Pneumatic Tubes
  ...e cost per word. As 'tele-' means far in Greek and 'gram' means written or writing, 'pneuma' means soul or vital spirit. In François Truffaut's 1968 film [ht
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• Chirograph (Cyrograph)
  ...for the making of the act and for the drafting, composing, witnessing, or writing that went with it" (Powell). ...ell). However, each scribe or notary still had their own personal style of writing, "and there is usually enough that is singular in the productions of chance
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• Homing Pigeons
  ...7). He also sheds some light onto the use of photography in times of war, writing that “the first use of microphotography in war was in Paris in 1870, when
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• Spirit Duplicator
  ...get the best results" (Doss 16). Masters can be made by typing, printing, writing, drawing, or stamping" (Fisher 33).
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• Notificator
  ...were given for writing a message that remained in view for two hours after writing.” ...I was realizing that if I wanted to I could use the telephone instead of writing the poem…It puts the poem squarely between the poet and the person,” al
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• Panorama
  Writing about the Eiffel tower in 1964, Roland Barthes also argues that the “pano
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• Glass Harmonica
  "I was ill, in a state of melancholia, and writing my testament and farewell letters. Wishing to distract me, my husband expla
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• NeXT Step
  ...cycled, forces us to consider how the citational possibilities inherent in writing take on new qualities in new media. ...ting system that allowed it to be changed without the need for complete re-writing, yet it survives as that structure for the MacOS today. When did it cease
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• Electric Pen
  ...ne, or closest written matter, and the heaviest solid or shaded letter and writing" (Wheeler). If the stencil was perfect all impressions were as well. The El ...k it down, the pen consisted of a metal tube or stylus resembling a pen or writing device. At the end would be the needle connecting to wires inside the tube
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• Shorthand
  ...d language. In fact, for the Greeks and Romans shorthand became the normal writing style; leaving hieroglyphics for ornamental scrolls and decoration on templ ...which also means to beat." (Kreitzman) The concept of Stenography (not the writing itself) was remediated throughout history in Eastern and Western cultures.
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• Incan Quipu
  ...resents a form of proto-writing, while others feel it embodies a system of writing all on its own. But regardless of the different magnitudes of functionality ...surface, the strings of a ''quipu'' functioned as both the surface and the writing tool itself; absolutely no stylus aside from the ''quipu'' was needed.
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• Peruvian Quipu
  ...resents a form of proto-writing, while others feel it embodies a system of writing all on its own. But regardless of the different magnitudes of functionality ...surface, the strings of a ''quipu'' functioned as both the surface and the writing tool itself. In addition to being knotted and dyed, the ''quipucomayac'' ha
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• Hollerith Punch Card
  ...The Punch Card technology was a remediation of card catalogues, short hand writing systems, and the Jacquard Loom. Although in recent years the Punch Cards ha ...nt 395782) Idea for automation of the census. Machines could not read hand writing, but could read cards with holes in them. The system seemed necessary becau
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• The Victrola
  ...fallibility of the stenographers. Stenography evolved into another form of writing called Phonography, which was intended for teachers. The use of the word Ph ...ect presence, writing becomes necessary.” (Derrida, Of Grammatology 144) Writing is commonly understood as supplementing speech. Edison accepted the illusio
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• Sample vs. Program
  ...entional sheet music, like computer programs, vector graphics systems, and writing itself, contain a highly developed systems of inscription which demand a gr
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• Mediatic Etymology
  ...urse well before the voice could be extended across space and time through writing.
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• Secretarial Letter Dictation
  Secretarial work, in one form or another, has existed since writing has existed; scribes were the first incarnation, followed by clerks. With ...she has caused my letter to make an unfavorable impression. [...] Letter writing is an important function in business, and is becoming of greater importance
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• HD-DVD
  ...ount of space. An example of this is thinking of the “difference between writing with a magic marker and a fine-tipped pen” (Wilson).
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• Marginalia
  ...mmunication - the way that we interact with our own ideas through texts by writing on them. Ultimately, I wish to argue that true marginalia are dead. Since ...as expressed in writing, which opened the door to more expressive forms of writing.
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• Analog/Digital Transition
  ...hnologies before the advent of truly digital communication, as both letter writing and especially telegraphy are technically digital forms of communication si
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• Duplicating Polygraph
  ...tures (Bedini 35). Pantographic mechanisms were employed in the service of writing as early as 1648 and throughout the 18th century, but these efforts were cu [[Image:brunel.jpg|350px|thumb|Patent for Brunel's "Writing and Drawing Machine".]]
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• Newsreel
  ...ributed to theaters. The reference materials available to the editors when writing the scripts and assembling the stories were the notes on the dope sheet and
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• HyperCard
  ===HyperCard and the Extension of Writing=== HyperCard begins to suggest how the computer can extend the concept of writing.
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• Mosso Ergograph
  ...is derived from the Greek ''erg'' meaning a unit of work, and ''graphe'' (writing) from ''graphein'' which is ''to write''.[[Image:PhotographofErgograph.JPG|
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• Acoustic Coupler
  ...s of computing culture that hinged upon the obfuscation of the reading and writing process. Sound is played into the device, and sound is generated and emana ...ic served to mythologize computer use as an act that went beyond automatic writing: the advent of modem use introduced a new character onto the scene&mdash; t
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• Heliograph
  ==Light In-Formation: Writing with Light, Flashes as Text/Image== ...s translation from code to message. The “double inscription” of 'light-writing' reveals the dual nature of Heliographic messages,“inscriptions insistent
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• Dance Card
  ...lowed public enunciation, but an enunciation that was nonetheless bound to writing. The pencil, in this scenario, is the master of choice, the discriminating [[Category:Writing]]
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• Mutoscope
  *Gitelman, Lisa. ''Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era''. Stanford, California
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• Euphonia Speaking Machine
  Gitelman, Lisa. "Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era". Stanford, CA: Stanfor
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• Cel Animation
  Gitelman, Lisa. “Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era.” Stanford: Stanford
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• Reverse Polish Notation
  While writing out equations in RPN is possible in working with equations with variables, [[Category:Writing]]
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• Phrenology (Craniology)
  [[Category:Writing]]
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• Underground Missile Silo
  ...page, or the attempted erasure of the imprint found with Freud’s Mystic Writing Pad. It also imprints the space around it with psychological violation, the Gitelman, Lisa. ''Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era''. Stanford, CA: Stanfo
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• Indus Valley Seal
  ...lists, representing what Cornelia Vismann (2008) calls “the emergence of writing from administration”. As civilizations grow, administration becomes more demanding, and writing needs to be mechanized. As an innovation in the mature period of the Indus
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• Mnemonics
  ...re memory palaces were implemented, hieroglyphs and other forms of picture writing were already using symbols to stand in for words and ideas. Memory palaces ...effaces Erinnerung, like mechanical reproduction effaces the original, and writing effaces speech.
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• Teddy Ruxpin
  - Gitelman, Lisa. ''Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technolgy in the Edison Era''. Stanford University P
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• Scopitone
  ...y for media links. After the storage capacities for optics, acoustics, and writing had been separated, mechanized, and extensively utilized, their distinct da
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• Critical Techniques
  ...sing mechanical levers, metal type, presses and inks, while the problem of writing and reproduction in the late twentieth century was solved using an entirely ...edium also contains entirely unmotivated and unexplainable traits. Western writing runs left to right, top to bottom. But this convention is arbitrary. Resear
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• Grand Guignol
  ...hand over ones eyes, a flinch, or a scream; these call back to the stage, writing of the horror just witnessed. Gitelman, Lisa. Scripts, grooves, and writing machines. Stanford University Press, 1999. Print.
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• Palmer Method of Penmanship
  [[Category:Writing]] ...machine," his system emphasized four qualities he saw as essential to good writing (Figure above). Palmer’s system largely displaced the earlier Spencerian
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• Liveness
  Liveness is the absence of writing. It is encoding and decoding happening simultaneously. Another attribute of
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• Terra Incognita
  ...odel for maps made in the 15th century. Although Ptolemy’s map was lost, writing and description of the map allowed scholars to make reconstructions, “The ...transport and delivery as well as a space of inscription by the ship as a writing instrument. The sea is experienced as sublime in the Kantian sense, where o
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• Jacquard Loom
  ...or clothing"; this skin can also be "dressed and prepared as a surface for writing" (OED, "skin"). The weave coming out of the Jacquard loom tells a story abo
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• Bootleg Video
  * Gitelman, Lisa. <i>Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines</i>. Stanford University Press, 1999.
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• Text-Based Computer Games
  ...different sort of effort--a puzzle solving that manifests itself as actual writing--is needed to unlock it" (Montfort, 3). This section will explore several a
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• Broadcasting
  ...dback, an expression that only existed previously through anecdotal letter writing. This small change in the flow of information, upstream from receivers to s *Gitelman, Lisa. ''Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era''. Stanford, CA: Stanfo
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• Absorption
  ...his assumptions about the effect these paintings had on the viewer through writing produced around them primarily through Diderot but also through the Salons. ...change in experience, especially in the physical, tactile realm. Fried’s writing on absorption does not discuss the physical experience of the artwork on be
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• Silent Film
  #Gitelman, L. (1999). ''Scripts, grooves, and writing machines: Representing technology in the Edison era. Stanford University: S
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• Parapraxes (Freudian Slips)
  [[Category:Writing]] ...istungen, German for “faulty function”) is an error of memory, speech, writing, reading or action that was thought by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) to be due
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• Textual Closure (Formal)
  ...es the nature of the printed word in relation to oratory. Plato holds that writing can be useful as an aid to memory, but not as a replacement for it. He bel [[Category:Writing]]
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• Optical Disc (First Generation)
  ...quality. The 1980s and 90s saw the rise of home theaters. Barbara Klinger, writing in her book ''Beyond the Multiplex'', argues that the modern home theater i ...the videodisc format directly, could very well be describing the discrete writing of video (=visual) images in the analogical grove of a laserdisc when he wr
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• Literary Hoax
  ...Beatrice Sparks, a psychologist and Mormon youth counsellor, admitted to writing it based on the stories of some of her students. Sparks has gone on to prod Postmodern writing (certainly not the only prevailing style now, there is a post-post) is all
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• Colossus Computer
  ...e 1980s, some of the researchers and scientists behind its invention began writing papers on the Colossus, its function, and its contributions to not only the ...ost any other communication medium. Cryptography exists in inscription and writing, as well as radio and broadcast communication. No matter where it occurs, h
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• Mix tape
  ...s riff for riff, made for no other consumption than mine" (Moore 18). Like writing or painting, mix tape compilation was often seen a pure act of asserting on
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• Bertillon System
  In Bertillon’s standardized system of “abridged writing,” this sentence could be reduced to: ...cal descriptions on the limited space of the Bertillon card. “Instead of writing out a description in complete sentences, choosing which features to record,
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• Language of Flowers
  ...redecessor to floriography. Seaton perhaps rectifies this inconsistency by writing, “Thus, while the 'sélam' was not exactly like the language of flowers a
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• Abacus
  ...hy Western writing runs not right to left but left to right unlike Islamic writing styles. We simply take it for granted as our way of living and just apprehe
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• HD DVD
  ...ount of space. An example of this is thinking of the “difference between writing with a magic marker and a fine-tipped pen” (Wilson).
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• Passenger Dirigible
  ...ss in an airship. There are ample comforts for sitting, sleeping, reading, writing, card playing, walking about and exercising and the new passenger airships ...d two berths and running water. On one side of the ship were a reading and writing room and a lounge, the latter equipped with a grand piano; on the other sid
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• Electronic Voice Phenomena
  ...is of the meaning of his experiments with Jurgenson. It is clear form this writing that Raudive was thrilled with his findings, which he considers world chang ...s its transmission in another, more commonly legible forms-- for instance, writing or speech. This model of paranormal communication could be described as dir
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• Electric Typewriter
  ''“Since 1865 (in Europe) or 1868 (in America) writing has no longer consisted of those ink or pencil traces of a body, whose opti
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