Friday, November 5, 2010

This is a video of Thomas Edison recording a ride on a subway in Manhattan in 1899.

oh and it's mind boggling to think that I watched the entire thing:

On the idea that I watched possibly one of the earliest forms of visual technology on youtube, a website thought to be overbearing with too many obnoxious abuses of state of the art visual technology.




also I find it stunning to think this is one of the earliest visual recordings of the world, if not the earliest.

But then again, I find wax recordings of Walt Whitman to be fascinating, which might make me really old.