Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

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• Marshall McLuhan publishes Understanding Media pp. 3-7

  Copyright © 1964 by Marshall McLuhan All Rights Reserved

• McLuhan receives research funding pp. 3-7

  who in 1959-1960 provided liberal aid to enable the author to pursue research in the media of communication

• Times Literary Supplement editorial on The Printed Word pp. 3-7

  the publishers of the Times Literary Supplement for granting him permission to reprint the editorial of July 19, 1963

• James Reston reports on television effects pp. 21-26

  James Reston wrote in The New York Times (July 7, 1957): A health director . . . reported this week that a small mouse, which presumably had…

• C.P. Snow reviews A.L. Rowse on Appeasement pp. 31-34

  C. P. Snow, reviewing a book of A. L. Rowse (The New York Times Book Review, December 24, 1961)

• Wireless telegraph enables Dr. Crippen's arrest at sea pp. 221-224

  The wireless telegraph was given spectacular publicity in 1910 when it led to the arrest at sea of Dr. Hawley H. Crippen

• Howard Unruh's shooting rampage in Camden pp. 242-246

  On September 6, 1949, a psychotic veteran, Howard B. Unruh, in a mad rampage on the streets of Camden, New Jersey, killed thirteen people

• Radio receiver of 1924 superior in sound quality pp. 247-250

  The radio receiver of 1924 was already superior in sound quality, and soon began to depress the phonograph and record business

• Henri Bergson publishes Creative Evolution pp. 259-262

  In 1911 Henri Bergson in Creative Evolution created a sensation by associating the thought process with the form of the movie

• Germans obsessed with lebensraum in 1930s pp. 263-267

  In the 1930s, by contrast, the German obsession was with lebensraum

• David Sarnoff proposes a home radio music box pp. 268-271

  David Sarnoff in 1916 sent a memo to the Director of the American Marconi Company that employed him, advocating the idea of a music box in t…

• Eric Havelock publishes Preface to Plato pp. 9-12

  Preface to Plato (Harvard University Press, 1963). Eric Havelock contrasts the oral and written cultures of the Greeks

• Minneapolis newspaper strike pp. 184-188

  In 1962, when Minneapolis had been for months without a newspaper, the chief of police said