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Out of the depths of historic woo rises the ancient and leathery tobacco enema kit. Gaze with horror. Gaze! Made by Evans & Co of London, this apparatus was used to revive people who were ‘apparently dead’, by making use of tobacco’s stimulant qualities. The bellows were used to blow tobacco smoke up the rectum […]
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Here’s a weird bit of dead media: a Smith-Corona audio-letter that used a “Letterpack cartridge” (which appears to be a 3.5” floppy disc) to record and play back personal voice-letters sent by post. The apparatus is a fascinating dead branch in design history, something that looks like it might be descended from a desktop intercom […]
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