The Dead Objects List

Dead Objects: A Preliminary List for Discussion and Research

This is where we accumulate dead objects that we plan to discuss and resarch. This list will soon include links and pictures. The Obituaries Blog develops our research on this list as we begin to do individual research projects on our chosen objects. Each member of the Autopsies Group has chosen between one and three objects for our initial research projects. Research Affiliates are invited to chose one object. Please send us ideas for our list or let us know if you are doing research on one of these objects or have written something that we can link on our website.

Mercury thermometer

Blackboards,
rubbers and chalk         

Incandescent light bulbs

Walkmans

Electric blankets

Teasmaid

Sodastream
Polaroid cameras and film                   

Zip-zaps (credit-card copiers)

Beauty-shop/ shower-cap hairdryers

Telex machines

Moulinex kitchen equipment

Slide projectors

Floppy discs

Sewing machines

Mangles

Mixtapes                             

Minitel

Camera flash bulb

Instamatic cameras

Shoe-shop foot measures

Infrared cookers

Ghetto-blasters

Photo albums

Sports equipment – croquet/ fox-hunting

Table lighters

Cigarette holders

Player pianos

Word processors (early versions with data saved on cassette)

Monotype                                    

Microfiche/ microfilm readers

Carbon paper

Typewriters

Cash registers

Jukeboxes

Wireless

Parking meters

Hand whisks

Meat grinders

Coal scuttles and related fireplace tools

Phone boxes

Candy machines

Eight-tracks

Monocles

Washboards

In-car/ on-plane phones

Pagers

Bed-warming pans

Steamer trunks

Directional compass

Carpet sweepers

On-stove kettles

Chip pans

Pressure cookers

Ceramic fuses

Crimping irons

Perfume dispensers

VHS

Musical box

Scythe

Oil Lamp

Glass Milk Bottle

Waterbed

Corset

Air balloons for scientific and military use


to be continued...