The Dead Media Notebook
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Authors: Bruce Sterling,Richard Kadrey,Tom Jennings,Tom Whitwell
- What is this book?
- The DEAD MEDIA Project: A Modest Proposal and a Public Appeal
- the Inca Quipu
- Chaucerian Virtual Reality
- The Milton Bradley Vectrex
- the Voice-Activated Typewriter of 1916
- Hotel Annunciator
- The Cyrograph
- the Scopitone
- dead computer languages
- artoc: The US Army’s portable pneumatic-tube powered multi-media system. in tents.
- The Magic Lantern; Peck & Snyder’s price list
- The scale of the Magic Lantern market
- anatomy of A Magic Lantern show
- Silent Film, Diorama, Panorama
- Leaflet grenades and the Monroe bomb
- software innovation in the Magic Lantern era
- mechanical encryption systems of the 1930s; The Comparator; the Rapid Selector
- The Experiential Typewriter
- Dead Cryptanalytic Devices of World War II
- Tongan Tin Can Mail
- Edison’s Electric Pen and early desktop publishing
- Military Telegraphy, Balloon Semaphore
- Mirror Telegraphy: The Heliograph, the Helioscope, the Heliostat, the Heliotrope
- The 17th century app store: Schott’s Organum Mathematicum
- Mobile phones using telegraph wires
- Pre wwII speech synthesis: The Voder, The Vocoder
- C. X. Thomas de Colmar’s Arithmometer
- Phonographic Dolls
- IBM Letterwriter
- the Zuse Ziffernrechner; the V1, Z1, Z2, Z3 and Z4 program-controlled electromechanical digital computers; the death of Konrad Zuse
- Dead Media 1897: The Consumer Context
- 18TH CENTURY MULTIMEDIA: Loutherbourg’s Eidophusikon
- Karakuri; the Japanese puppet theater of Chikamatsu
- Dead memory systems
- Victorian talking pictures: the Kinetophone
- Clockwork wall animation—living pictures
- Skytale, the Spartan code-stick
- the pigeon post of ancient Sumer
- the pigeon post in the seige of paris
- the pigeon post in the seige of paris, part 2
- the pigeon post and the balloon post
- even more about the pigeon post
- Vidscan
- bootleg concert recordings of the 19th century, papier-mache records
- Kids’ Dead Media 1929: The Mirrorscope, the Vista Chromoscope, the Rolmonica, the Chromatic Rolmonica
- The Speaking Picture Book; squeeze toys that ‘speak’
- Refrigerator-Mounted Talking Note Pad
- The Experiential Typewriter
- Kids’ Dead Media 1937: the Auto-Magic Picture Gun
- The ‘writing telegraph;’ Gray’s Telautograph; the military telautograph; the telewriter; the telescriber
- The Heliograph AND the Heliotrope
- The Heliograph
- Russolo’s Intonarumori
- the Agfa Geveart Family Camera
- The CED Video Disc Player
- Eighteenth Century English mail hacks
- the pigeon post FROM THE SEIGE OF ACRE TO WWI
- Muybridge’s Zoopraxiscope
- the Player Piano
- Atari Video Music
- the Elcaset cartridge tape and player
- Bell Labs Half-Tone Television
- Popular Science 1932: Naumburg’s Visagraph, the Electric Eye Linotype, Ordering Music by Phone
- Piesse’s Smell Organ
- Scott’s Electronium
- Candle-Powered Radio
- Cahill’s Telharmonium
- Soviet bone music samizdat recordings
- The Talking View-Master
- Dead photographic processes
- The Luba Lukasa
- PhoneVision
- Sonovision
- Union telegraph balloons, Confederate microfilm
- Chase’s Electric Cyclorama
- Dead computational platforms
- the Optigan
- the Panorama
- Daguerre’s Diorama
- Known surviving panoramas
- Jenkins Radiovisor, Bell Picture Telephone, RGA/Oxberry CompuQuad,
- the theatrophone and the electrophone
- more on the theatrophone and electrophone
- Theatrophonic televangelism
- Hopi town criers
- Dancer’s novelty microphotographs and Dagron’s balloon post
- Telephonic Jukeboxes: The Shyvers Multiphone, the Phonette Melody Lane, the AMI Automatic
- Nazi U-boat automated weather forecasting espionage network
- The Inuit Inuksuit
- The General Electric Show ‘N Tell
- The Bletchley Park Colossus
- the Bletchley Park Colossus
- The Aluminum Transcription Disk
- Indecks Information Retrieval System
- Pneumatic Typewriters
- Dead Personal Computers
- Early Mechanical Television Systems
- Baird Mechanical Television, Part One: Technical Introduction
- Baird Mechanical Television, Part Two: Technical Introduction
- Baird Mechanical Television, Part Three: Baird Mechanical Television Part 3: Other Countries, Other Systems
- Fire Signals and Horse Post on the Great Wall of China
- The MiniCine toy projector
- The Theatrophone, the electrophone
- Peepshows
- the Nintendo Virtual Boy, the Logitech Cyberman 3D mouse, the Nintendo Power Glove
- An Amish Cyclorama
- The Tru-Vue stereographic viewer
- The ICL One Per Desk
- The Philips Programmed Individual Presentation System (PIP)
- the Travelling Panorama
- the Edison Electric Pen, pneumatic pen, magnetic pen, and foot-powered pen
- the Edison Electric Pen, Reed pen, and Music Ruling Pen
- the Edison Electric Pen
- New Guinea Talking Drum
- Cat Piano and Tiger Organ Cat Piano
- Shadow theatre
- the Kinora
- The Wilcox-Gay Recordio
- The Velvet Revolution in the Magic Lantern
- Native American Smoke Signals
- fraudulent media of the Spirit world
- the Edison Wax Cylinder
- Kids’ interactive television: Captain Power
- the Dubroni instant camera
- the Singing Telegram; the death of George P. Oslin
- Children’s Dead Media
- Dead Personal Computers
- Robertson’s Phantasmagoria
- Dead media: Robertson’s Phantasmagoria; Seraphin’s Ombres Chinoises; Guyot’s smoke apparitions; the Magic Lantern
- Robertson’s Phantasmagoria
- Phantasmagoria enters the mainstream
- Robertson’s Final Phantasmagoria
- American Missile Mail
- McDonnell Douglas Laserfilm VideoDisc Player
- Two-track PlayTape; the Stanton Mail Call Letter Pack
- Inuit carved maps
- Edison’s Vertical-Cut Records
- The Flame Organ; The Burning Harmonica; the Chemical Harmonica; Kastner’s Pyrophone
- Telelogoscopy; Television Screen News
- Phonograph History
- PALplus television letterbox format
- Heron’s Nauplius
- the IBM Selectric Typewriter
- The Blickensderfer Typewriter; the Scientific keyboard
- the Slide Rule
- Wide-Screen Movies: Gance’s Polyvision, Waller’s Cinerama
- Wide Screen Movies: CinemaScope, Todd-AO, MGM Camera 65, CinemaScope 55, Super Panavision 70, Ultra Panavision 70
- Dead Cinema Color Processes
- Norwegian transport wires
- the pneumatic post and the dreyfus affair
- Dead synthesizers: the Hazelcom McLeyvier
- Dead Synthesizers: the Con Brio ADS 200
- Dead synthesizers: ARP 2600
- Dead synthesizers: the Adaptive Systems, Inc. Synthia
- the library card catalog
- the library card catalog
- Dead Digital Documents
- Officially Deleted Digital Documents
- the Baby Mark I Computer
- The Readies
- Caselli’s Pantelegraph (Part One)
- Bain’s Facsimile Telegraphy
- NEWSPAPERS BY RADIO, IN 1938
- TELEVISION IN THEATRES, AT 50,000 VOLTS
- Gould’s 3-D Television
- Duston’s Talking Book
- Dead human languages
- The Polyrhetor AT the 1939 World’s Fair Futurama
- A VINE VENDING MACHINE IN THE 1960S: THE Sony Videomat
- the Telegraph: the Morse Pendulum Instrument, the Morse Register
- THE TELEGRAPHY ECOSYSTEM OF 1900
- The Telegraph: Fire Alarms, Burglar Alarms, Railroad-Signal Systems, Hotel Annunciators, District Messenger Services
- the Hotel Annunciator
- The Telegraph: Inductive Telegraphy
- recording and telling stories with The Inca Quipo
- The Telegraph
- Flower Codes
- Henry Mills’ Typewriter
- Typewriters: the Comptometer, the Numerograph, the book typewriter
- Brown’s cash carrier
- Brown’s cash carrier
- Super 8 mm film
- how to build a ‘farmer’s telephone’
- Cash carriers
- graphic novels of 981AD
- Dead ASCII Variants
- Dead Money
- Wheatstone’s Telegraphic Meterometer
- The Amateur Radio Relay League Radiogram
- The Teleplex Morse Code Recorder
- Bi Sheng’s Clay Printing Press
- the Astrolabe; Ctesibius’s Clepsydra Orrery
- the Astrolabe in Islam
- the Astrolabe in Europe
- Chaucer’s Astrolabe Manual
- VISIDEP 3-D Television
- Coins as Media
- Interactive Cable Television: Cableshop
- a personal recollection of VisiDep 3-D Television
- Anschutz’s arcade peepshow
- the death of naval morse code
- artificial church bells
- Exchequer Tallies
- afterlife of the Edison Electric Pen
- Poster Stamps
- The Regina Music Box
- 3D PHOTOGRAPHY IN 1903
- Mobile Cavalry Telephone
- Camras’s Wire Recorder
- Minitel R.I.P
- The Burroughs Moon-Hopkins Typewriter AND Calculator
- TelegraphIC LANGUAGE: Cablese, Wirespeak, Phillips Code, Morse Code
- Whistling Networks of the Canary Islands
- Talking Greeting Card; Manually-Powered Sound Tape
- Monastic sign language
- cardboard artificial intelligence
- Spook Shows
- Vinyl Multimedia
- Basque Talking Drum
- Peek-a-Boo Index Cards: Optical Parallel Computers of the 1950s
- US Air Force ‘Clones’ Obsolete Electronics
- Paris pneumatic mail
- RCA SelectaVision Holographic Videofilm
- Hummel’s Telediagraph; the fax machine of 1898
- The Organetta
- Computer Game Emulators
- Ghost Sites on the Web
- De Moura’s Wave Emitter
- Nixie indicator tube displays
- Korean Horse Post
- Naval SOS Becomes Obsolete
- Dead public sirens and horns
- tower clocks and chimes; city-wide public address systems; factory whistles; foghorns
- Telegraphy
- Dead Digital Documents
- The Philips-Miller Audio Recording System
- Trail Blazing by Apes
- Notched Bones
- The Vortex Experimental Theater
- Minifon Pocket-size Wire Recorder
- Trail Blazing in Ancient Australia
- Paper Magnetic-Recording Tape
- AT&T Telephotography; AT&T Picturephone
- Mechanical Sirens and Foghorns
- Quadraphonics
- Dead Chinese Coinage
- Timex Magnetic Disk Recorder
- the Pigeon Post, alive in 1998
- Antique Chip Fabricator
- The Toy Artist drawing automaton
- Sound Bites musical candy
- Phonovid Vinyl Video
- Ancient Irish fire beacon
- the Pigeon Post Criminals
- causes of media mortality; Roman relay runners, Mongol horse post, Polybius’s fire signals, British Naval Howe Code, Pony Express, Aztec signals
- Public Fire Alarms In Colonial Shanghai
- the Chiu-mou-ti Hsing-wu-t’ai
- Crandall’s Electric Sign
- Dead Digital Documents
- Winky-Dink Interactive TV
- the Cat Piano
- the Cat Piano, The Donkey Chorus, the Pig Piano
- Train Token Signals System
- Optical Telegraphy; Heliography
- Train Token Signals System
- Ramelli’s Book Wheel
- The Camera Obscura
- Parisian Shadow Theatre
- Camera Obscuras Existing Today
- Immortal Media
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