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- Apr 2024
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human.libretexts.org human.libretexts.org
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kinetoscope
Kinetoscopes , were machines designed for an individual person to view the images through a "viewfinder" while cranking it. This was the only way to view films.
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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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- Aug 2015
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hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
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“I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.”
this is fascinating to me - i had no idea of his connections with education. Makes me wonder about Tesla's thoughts on education now. And how he'd feel about filmstrips, which are in essence super cheap motion pictures.
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