A fellow named Lenard (later to become Hitler's Chief of German Physics) won the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on cathode rays.

Your monitor is not called a CRT for nothing.

The first Nickolodeon in Amurrica was opened in Pittsburgh

by two guys named Harry or Harris or David or Davis or something

like that.

Marconi was still regarded as a young upstart and Edison was

a millionaire tinkerer.

The short-playing record had just become flat, although Edison

was to keep churning out cylinders for years.

Telephone lines (above the ground) and Telegraph lines (below da groun)

were messing with each other and

attempts to use "radio" as a "wireless telegraph" added to the

cornfusion.

Albert Einstein (who?) peeved a lot of people by using his

brain instead of his seniority. Back in the bad old days,

you had to be old to be trusted and the young Turks (more about

them later) of science had to shut up until their

mentors (and oppressors) had died or at least gotten dotty

enough not to care anymore.

By 1905, Eastman Kodak had already been selling it's popular

folding (accordion) box cameras for six years.

The old-fashioned crank and horn record players had

given way to a more sophisticated spring-driven or electrically-

operated system with a furniture-quality cabinet. The Victrola

was a prime example.