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![Concrete Poetry: Thomas Edison and the Almost-Built World](https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/essays/concrete-poetry-thomas-edison/edison-with-concretehouse-thumb.jpg?w=600&h=1200&auto=format,compress)
Concrete Poetry: Thomas Edison and the Almost-Built World
The architect and historian Anthony Acciavatti uses a real (but mostly forgotten) patent to conjure a world that could have been. more
![Inventing the Recording](https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/essays/inventing-the-recording/sound-thumb.jpg?w=600&h=1200&auto=format,compress)
Eva Moreda Rodríguez on the formative years of the recording industry, focusing on the culture surrounding the gabinetes fonográficos of fin-de-siècle Spain. more