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Forgotten Gadgets and Antiquated Devices
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
  • 1. Hand-operated lever used to start old engines or machines
  • 2. Not an invention, replaced with 'TAPEDECK': Device for magnetic audio recording
  • 3. Old name for fax machines transmitting documents over phone lines
  • 5. Device that mixes fuel and air for combustion engines
  • 7. Device that played sound recordings on rotating discs
  • 10. Flash powder used in old photography for bright bursts of light
  • 11. Device and system for shorthand writing by court reporters
  • 14. Machine for playing and recording cassette tapes
  • 19. Early television system that used film reels
Down
  • 4. Ancient calculating tool with beads on rods
  • 6. Early internet connection via telephone lines
  • 8. Flexible strip carrying photosensitive material for cameras
  • 9. Famous obsolete color slide film brand
  • 12. System using compressed air tubes once used to send messages
  • 13. Mechanical machine for producing printed letters before computers
  • 15. Early firearm ignition mechanism using sparks from flint
  • 16. Communication method using dots and dashes
  • 17. Early communication method using coded pulses over wire
  • 18. Old photographic print or cliché image stereotype

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