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Ingenious Oddities of Victorian Innovators
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  • 1. Early communication tool using coded electrical signals
  • 2. Device facilitating the automatic drawing or writing of lines
  • 3. Term used historically for rates of change, linked to early tech
  • 4. Mechanical tool allowing movement in one direction only
  • 6. An early device to record or display moving images
  • 9. Light winds that inspired several 19th-century wind-powered devices
  • 11. A photographic process using paper negatives developed in the 1840s
  • 12. Tool used for joining two film strips or wires
  • 14. Nickname for a hand-powered machine, often whimsical in design
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  • 5. A contraption designed for amusement or novelty in the 1800s
  • 7. Early device that played recorded sounds on a cylinder
  • 8. Inspired the design of a human-powered 'bird-like' vehicle
  • 10. Device used to see over obstacles, popularized in the 1800s
  • 13. Instrument for measuring orientation based on spinning wheels
  • 15. Machine part often used to create thread or whimsical toys
  • 16. Electrical generator turning mechanical energy into electricity
  • 17. Portable light source often used in 19th-century inventions

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