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In printing, particularly of newspapers, it was the controllability of electric motors which was the particular advantage. The papers had shown steady growth in their circulations in the nineteenth century, which was partly due to more universal education, but also (in Britain at any rate) the removal of the stamp tax. Just as important, if not more so, was the use of the railways to distribute the papers in time for breakfast and, crucially, the ability to print large numbers very quickly.
The cinema is an invention without a future.
Louis Lumière
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Williams, J.B. (2018). Early Mass Media: Newspapers and Cinema. In: The Electric Century. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51155-9_7
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