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Figures 1. De Bry’s “Spitting Cannibal,” 1592 xxii 1.1. From Destruction of the Indies, 1552 9 1.2. De Léry’s “Spitting Cannibal,” 1578 16 2.1. The Ptolemaic Cosmos 36 4.1. Virgil and Dante on the Lake of Cocytus 69 5.1. Tom Swift and His Wireless Message, 1911 75 5.2. Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone, 1914 76 6.1. Mrs. Philips’ Condom Advertisement 94 7.1. Thomas A. Edison and his Phonograph 111 7.2. “Little Nipper,” the HMV Symbol 113 7.3. Barraud, His Master’s Voice, 1899 114 7.4. “Little Nipper” in Antarctica 116 7.5. Barraud, Dog Looking at and Listening to a Phonograph, 1899 117 7.6. Francis Barraud at his Easel 118 7.7. Victor HMV Advertisement 120 7.8. Doctor Dolittle 123 8.1. David Sarnoff at the New York World’s Fair 142 8.2. The HMV-900 Television Console (1937) 145 8.3. John Logie Baird and the Nipkow Disk 150 8.4. Vladimir Zworykin’s Patent for the Iconoscope 152 8.5. Consuming the “Spitting Cannibal,” 1592 161 ...

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