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Interactive Game

This game works in a similar way as the earliest forms of analog animation. As Rebekah Modrak states in her book and on her website, Reframing Photography, thaumatropes (an early form of animation) “ depend on the persistence of vision to blend individual images, thereby creating the illusion of continuous motion.” In this case, single images randomly appear in our frame of view, one-after-another, thus making it appear that the being is toddling.

Link to Rebekah Modrak’s, Reframing Photography, with examples of artists making thaumotropes. https://www.reframingphotography.com/page/photographic-thaumatropes

Game

Maria E. Beasley. 1903. Kneading-Machine.

[A9] Maria E. Beasley ● US Patent #739142 ● Patented September 15, 1903 ● Kneading Machine ● “The object of my invention has been to provide a kneading-machine which shall be so thorough and uniform in its action that the maximum amount of dough shall be produced from any given amount of flour” ● “This operation is rendered easy by the action of the counterweight N. The lever M is then rocked in the opposite direction, bringing the plungers down into the pan. The cams W are preferably so arranged that each alternate plunger is down while its neighbors are up. The driving-shaft is then set in motion, and the pan is revolved by means of the gearing driving the table D. At the same time the plungers are revolved by means of the belt and toothed gearing at their upper ends, and they are caused to rise and fall by the action of the cams WV on the pins X. Owing to the revolution of the pan, every portion of the dough is brought under the operation of the plungers, and a most thorough mixing of the flour, water, yeast, and other constituents of the dough results. At the same time the twisting or turning of the plungers causes the dough to be stretched or drawn apart between each two plungers, and this action is further increased by the fact that adjacent plungers are always moving in opposite directions.

HERo: Maria E. Beasley. 1903. “The object of my invention has been to provide a kneading-machine which shall be so thorough and uniform in its action that the maximum amount of dough shall be produced from any given amount of flour; and to such end my invention consists in the kneadingmachine hereinafter specified.

In carrying my invention into practice I provide a base A, having a central hearing B, in which is mounted a vertical shaft 0, that carries at its upper end a circular table D. The table is supported and steadied toward its outer edge by pillar-bearings E, mounted upon. the base-plate, and supporting-rolls e, which engage the under-surface of the table.”

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Doris Moehrle. 1976. Reusable Tampon.

[A12], [C16] Doris Moehrle ● US Patent #4108180 ● Patented August 22, 1978 ● Reusable Tampon ● “This invention relates to a tampon adapted for disposition in a human cavity, generally the female vagina and for the purpose of absorbing menstrual fluids. More particularly, the invention relates to an internally worn device which is of a dry compressible nature for insertion through the normally constricted vaginal opening for disposition into the vaginal cavity proper.” ● “A still further object of the present invention is the provision of a device of the above-indicated nature which can be additionally used as a birth control mechanism as through its intended disposition in the vaginal cavity so as to effectively block the necessary upstream passage of semen therein.”

HERo: Doris Moehrle. Reusable tampon. 1976. “A reusable tampon device including a body of flexible, dry compressible cellular sponge material such as polyurethane foam which is capable of absorbing body fluids such as menses and having an outer covering completely enclosing said body and comprising a porous structure having at least one open mesh fibrous material layer forming a bag and including a draw string interconnected with peripheral portions of the bag for opening and closing such to permit easy removal of the body therefrom for cleansing and reuse.”

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