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- Mar 2024
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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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- Sep 2021
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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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