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• Main Page
  .../2010/09/19/magazine/classroom-technology.html/ The Evolution of Classroom Technology]
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• 8-track Tape
  An example of magnetic tape sound recording technology, the 8-track eventually became a redesigned version of several existing tap
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• Magic Lantern
  Roughly ten years later in 1843, the technology of the zoetrope and phenakistiscope would be combined. T.W. Naylor devised
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• Flatness
  ==Deliberately Flat Technology== ...comfortable with machines that could “read themselves” as representing technology, the media before CDs were still reading a text which, even if not quite pe
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• Pneumatic Tubes
  ...). The language of this patent makes it plain that he did not invent this technology, but instead made vast improvements upon the original, which consisted of a ...ectangular “tube” on rails. Time is clearly of the essence here; this technology would have been utterly useless had it not been extremely timesaving. Addi
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• Hotel Annunciator
  ...d eventually be the most widely dispersed outgrowth of these advances, the technology and concept were first put to use in a variety of small-scale communication Today, the concept of a hotel annunciator is no longer embraced as a technology of service. More currently used for alarms, the annunciator has become a sa
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• Newspaper via Radio Facsimile
  ...d radio. One of the initial demonstrations of the news via radio facsimile technology was conducted on April 17th, 1946, when it successfully printed a four-colu ...or the newspaper via radio facsimile, there are many articles covering the technology including pictures of people posing next to the devices in their homes. Ad
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• Polaroid Camera
  ...hout needing a large crystal of an esoteric mineral" (Save Polaroid). This technology enabled not only the development of the Polaroid camera but sunglasses, 3-D ..." (The New York Times). Polaroid claimed that Kodak illegally copied their technology and "entered Polaroid's exclusive field" with their 1976 introduction of an
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• Homing Pigeons
  ...refuse to use Facebook and stick strictly to their cell phones; the newer technology is useful but slightly scary, with the potential for many drawbacks. While ...network is in fact the only truly dead medium posted on this page, as the technology used is in a very literal sense extinct (see: [[Where do media go to die?]]
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• 3D Television
  ...ce nausea and dizziness which were reported during the early stages of the technology. These complaints have followed 3-D television from the beginning as the e Clapperton, Guy. "Technology: Inside IT: You won't believe your eyes when 3D TV becomes reality: Perfect
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• Player Piano
  ...ns of music that revealed music to not be just a beautiful art but digital technology as well.
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• Steenbeck
  ...ect (film), and despite advancements that have been made with film-editing technology, there are certain filmmakers that continue to stand by this process. As we When the technology of digital editing systems entered the scene in the early 1990s, it brought
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• Minitel
  ...usive in terms of definition. There are numerous names for these types of technology that came into existence in the very early 1980's including Teletext, Video ...ficient key placements, Minitel locked users into a relatively inefficient technology that nonetheless still served an extremely valuable function" (Trumbull 61)
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• Glass Harmonica
  ...ty." Leonardo, Vol. 20, No. 2, Special Issue: Visual Art, Sound, Music and Technology (1987): 139-142. JStor. NYU. 8 Nov. 2007.
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• Experiential Typewriter
  ...during daily data-processing is a hybrid-construction of the self and the technology. Varying degrees of active, controlled cognition were described in Hofmann ...o the subject's experience is clear; arguments and conversations about the technology appear and guide some parts of "Soliloquy," while the non-address of the re
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• NeXT Step
  The NeXTStep was an “object-oriented technology that Apple’s Pink engineers were just starting to develop” (Carlton 409 ===Object-oriented Technology===
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• Semaphore Telegraph
  ...tion is that an inadequacy of the semaphore telegraph is solved by another technology. To see signals miles and miles away, a telescope is needed. "Telescope mak Another important aspect of semaphore telegraphs is not about the technology itself. Rather, being situated on top of hills, semaphore telegraphs work w
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• Phonograph Doll
  ...makes this the most obvious, since there was literally a new communicative technology within a child’s toy right after this medium was invented. But “the ob ...tandard "toy" for children for centuries, so the only way that a new media technology could be marketed as a toy was to encase it in the most standard toy possib
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• Shorthand
  ...with a deal of opposition. This can be seen as a pop and whistle of this technology. No matter how much training in the writing one can have, every piece tran
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• Ear Trumpet
  ...sonance to increase the sound energy itself, this is conceptually the same technology that ear trumpets use to amplify sound. The hand cupped over the ear can a ...could be attained by prison guards(Bennion 3). This implementation of the technology is unique because of its intended use, spying, which vastly differs from pr
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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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• Secretarial Letter Dictation
  ...ypewriters) are still in use in the legal system alongside voice-to-speech technology in case of computer failure.
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• Dumbwaiter
  ...that is static, privatizing, and decorative in its function; the other, a technology that is dynamic, utilitarian, and ultimately democratizing. ...a few centuries old. One of the earliest recorded applications of elevator technology within the domestic sphere comes - not surprisingly - from Versailles, the
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• Virtual boy
  ...uctance to take a risk accepting a radically different (though flawed) new technology. It also exposed how perfection driven the Japanese business model is (in t ...display. But that was about to change with the partnership of Reflections Technology, a company from Massachusetts that invented mirror scanning stereoscopic di
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• Spirit Photography
  "Spirit Photography" refers to the use of photographic technology, with or without the use of a camera, to document the existence of the supe
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• Tamagotchi
  ...endly and form personal connections, and the rising popularity of personal technology. ...rtual caregiver (Allison, 172). Furthermore, the eye-catching and personal technology of the Tamagotchi made it easier for users to feel connected with their vir
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• Picturephone
  ...ty of “inexpensive and reliable camera and display tubes,” finally, “technology was beginning to catch up with the concept” (Carson 284). ...e general public were allowed, for the first time, to actually try the new technology to talk to, and see, people across the country. Opinions were generally fa
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• Stock Ticker Machine
  ...e of New York were able to trade on Wall Street with the advent of the new technology, localized markets became more and more obsolete. The country lost at least ...re was still a need for a two-way printing telegraph type of communication technology.
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• Parrots & Birds as Symbols of Surveillance
  == Audio Recording Technology & Wiretapping == ...’s coincides with a fall in popularity of the parrot as a pet. The first technology-based equivalent of eavesdropping is the tapping of telephone lines, also k
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• Dymaxion House
  In the era of industrialized technology, Fuller found resource mismanagement inexcusable. One of the practices he m As is frequently the case with high investment technology, war served as the motivation for the next implementation of the Dymaxion h
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• HD-DVD
  ...digital convergence – the fusion of consumer electronics and information technology (Toshiba). When the market began to demand a new technology to follow the standard DVD several companies began to develop alternatives.
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