{"id":11915,"date":"2013-12-09T22:52:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T03:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=11915"},"modified":"2013-12-09T23:10:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T04:10:39","slug":"poignant-1898-magazine-ad-touts-the-most-marvellous-instrument-of-our-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/09\/poignant-1898-magazine-ad-touts-the-most-marvellous-instrument-of-our-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Poignant 1898 magazine ad touts &#8220;the most marvellous instrument of our age&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was flipping through the January 1898 issue of <em>The Nickell<\/em>\u2014which, as you know, is the kind of thing I love to do, because it&#8217;s the closest to a time machine I&#8217;m going to get\u2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TheNickellCoverJanuary1898.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11917\" alt=\"TheNickellCoverJanuary1898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TheNickellCoverJanuary1898-206x300.jpg\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TheNickellCoverJanuary1898-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TheNickellCoverJanuary1898-703x1024.jpg 703w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TheNickellCoverJanuary1898.jpg 1252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014when I spotted a poignant advertisement filled with nostalgia not just for the late 19th century\u2014but for the <em>early<\/em> 19th century as well.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a half-page ad for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Graphophone\">Graphophone<\/a>, which appears to be the next step forward after  Thomas Edison&#8217;s phonograph, an old man listens to &#8220;the most marvellous instrument of our age&#8221; and wistfully declares&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/NickellGraphophoneAd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11918\" alt=\"NickellGraphophoneAd\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/NickellGraphophoneAd-300x229.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/NickellGraphophoneAd-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/NickellGraphophoneAd-1024x784.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/NickellGraphophoneAd.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They didn&#8217;t have anything like this when I was young.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can imagine the old guy getting all misty-eyed. I must admit I got a little misty-eyed myself. <\/p>\n<p>Wonder if it did the same to those who dropped a nickel on a copy of <em>The Nickell<\/em> back then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was flipping through the January 1898 issue of The Nickell\u2014which, as you know, is the kind of thing I love to do, because it&#8217;s the closest to a time machine I&#8217;m going to get\u2014 \u2014when I spotted a poignant advertisement filled with nostalgia not just for the late 19th century\u2014but for the early 19th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,352],"class_list":["post-11915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-old-magazines","tag-the-nickell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11915"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11929,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915\/revisions\/11929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}