In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Manly had a wonderful range of tourist attractions designed to separate the thousands of day-trippers from their cash, writes John Morcombe. There were several merry ...

Two mutoscopes — moving picture machines — “have been placed at Riverside Park,” the Asheville Citizen reported on Sept. 8, 1902, “and to accommodate them and the machines previously in use there, a ...

A new exhibit at the National Naval Aviation Museum pays tribute to earliest days of Naval aviation through a replica penny arcade from the early 1900s. The Dawn of Naval Aviation exhibit features ...

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[John] got his hands on a 3D printer, and did what any hacker with a new toy would, printed himself a Mutoscope. (A what?) A Mutoscope is an early flip-book based motion picture machine, and in this ...

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Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

Hard though it may be to believe for anyone raised since the advent of VCRs, there was a time when people actually had to leave their homes to see adult movies. Going to sleazy cinemas ended up being ...