Dead Media Working Notes

Historical media and inventions, like pnuematic trains, camera obscura, the Difference Engine, wax cylinder audio recordings, etc.

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Video Recordings from the days of Mechanical Television

Video recordings restored from some sort of disc, made in the late twenties, before cathode ray tube televisions.

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National Security Archives

FOIA, etc, archives related to US national security.

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Animal Group Names (Collective Nouns)

From the Christchurch, New Zealand Library system comes this reference for collective nouns for different types of animals: "caravan of camels", "pride of lions", "murder of crows", etc.

dead link: http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Childrens/FactSheets/AnimalGroupNames.asp

2020 Update: Here is an alternative list of such.