Other ideas,such as the electric pen, looked promis-ing, at least at first, judging from com-ments in the library press in 1877 and1879. The pen's story proves that inven-tions must not only serve a general need,they must adapt to the specific require-ments of libraries and conform withother existing technologies. Invented byThomas Alva Edison and patented in1876, the electric pen was a writing in-strument that used electromagnets and asmall storage battery. The actual pen,connected by wire to the power source,resembled a sewing needle; it producedsmall punctures in the form of letters andnumbers, and when an inked roller waspassed over the resulting stencil plate,legible copies could be made.
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www.latimes.com www.latimes.com
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Edison wants to raise rates to pay for wildfires linked to its equipment - Los Angeles Times by [[Melody Petersen]]
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web.archive.org web.archive.org
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Quotations and Literary Allusions spoken by Willy Wonka in the 1971 film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory<br /> by Thomas M. Brodhead<br /> https://bmt-systems.com/score/wonka.htm
Archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20200111135336/https://bmt-systems.com/score/wonka.htm
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writingslowly.com writingslowly.com
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People marveled at new invention after new invention and there was a tendency to see mechanical and especially electrical advances as somehow endowed with life. The phonograph, for example, was held to be alive and print adverts even claimed it had a soul.
I love the tying together of the "aliveness" of a zettelkasten with the "soul" of the phonograph here.
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hcommons.org hcommons.org
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It was diction who created the kinetoscope and other Mashona and Edison took credit.
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Thomas Edison creating motion pictures not because of a contest. But he created short films using other investors from France ideas and created a studio called the black Moria
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