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Mind Reading in Stage Magic: The “Second Sight” Illusion, Media, and Mediums
communication +1, 2015 This article analyzes the late-nineteenth-century stage illusion “The Second Sight,” which seemingly demonstrates the performers’ telepathic abilities.
Katharina Rein
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Middleware’s message : the financial technics of codata [PDF]
, 2021 In this paper, I will argue for the relevance of certain distinctive features of messaging systems, namely those in which data (a) can be sent and received asynchronously, (b) can be sent to multiple simultaneous recipients and (c) is received as a ...
Castelle, Michael
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Telegraphy The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy Wireless Telegraphy Wireless Telegraphy [PDF]
Nature, 1906 OF the numerous achievements of which the electrical engineer can boast, telegraphy is the one of which he has the greatest reason to be proud. If we combine with telegraphy the sister subject of telephony there can be little doubt but that by the application of these two sciences he has effected a greater revolution in human affairs than by all his ...
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Science Museum Group Journal, 2019 In 1860, renowned natural philosopher (now referred to as a ‘scientist’ or, more specifically in the case of Clerk Maxwell, a ‘physicist’) James Clerk Maxwell wrote ‘Valentine from a Telegraph Clerk ♂ [male] to a Telegraph Clerk ♀ [female]’ (Harman, 2001)
Elizabeth Bruton
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Fat shaming under neoliberalism and COVID‐19: Examining the UK’s Tackling Obesity campaign
Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 3-18, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This article explores the dynamics between fat shaming, neoliberalism, ideological constructions of health and the ‘obesity epidemic’ within the UK, using the UK Government’s recent Tackling Obesity campaign in response to Covid‐19 as an illustration.
Luna Dolezal, Tanisha Spratt
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Vorarbeiten im 19. Jahrhundert für die Agrarmeteorologie
Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 1996 In der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts überwogen Bemühungen um meteorologische Beobachtungen und deren Auswertung mit landwirtschaftlicher Zielsetzung.
Tello von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
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DAVID BEVAN, FRGS, FBSC: Drums of the Birkenhead
Scientia Militaria, 2012 "She was entirely alone in her agony, just as much isolated by the suddenness of her ruin as if wireless telegraphy had not existed." Hierdie gedagtes, deur die redakteur van "The Times" uitgespreek in 'n hoofartikel wat hy na aanleiding van die "Titanic"
Jan Ploeger
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"The Path to Freedom"? Transocean and German Wireless Telegraphy, 1914-1922 [PDF]
, 2012 This article examines the early years of Transocean, a news agency owned and run by the German government, and its use of wireless telegraphy from 1914 to 1922. This investigation of the infancy of wireless technology demonstrates that technology plays a
Evans, Heidi Jacqueline
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Provincialising Early Feminism: A View from the Middle East
Gender &History, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract ‘Provincializing Europe’, derived from Dipesh Chakrabarty's work of that name, argued that an imagined ‘Europe’ was a founding myth for modernity. While not mentioning feminism, this analysis is a valuable starting point for tracing the path of the term ‘féminism’ from France to Britain to the Ottoman Empire and from the USA to the Arab world –
Ruth Roded
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Spiritualist Writing Machines: Telegraphy, Typtology, Typewriting
communication +1, 2015 This paper examines how religious concepts both reflected and informed the development of new technologies for encoding, transmitting, and printing written information.
Anthony Enns
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