Retro Educational Technology

Vintage education technology. At Time4Learning , we appreciate the history of educational technology & enjoy viewing previous "revolutions" in educational technology. We live at the cutting edge of technology-mediated education and live amidst slide projectors, mimeograph machines, and even an old slate. Did you use these technologies, were they revolutionary? PS. I'm looking for a teacher gradebook typical until around the turn of the century, have one?

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Educational Technology of Yesteryear

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  At VocabularySpellingCity headquarters, we collect vintage educational technology.  We like to remember that we are not the first generati...

Laterna Magica or The Magic Lantern

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Magic Lantern I was thrilled when, in a flea market, I ran across a beautiful old Magic Lantern.  With just a bit of haggling and a surpr...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Vintage School Desks

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We all went to school and we all sat at school desks.   We sat at school desks for hours and hours, days and days, weeks and weeks, month...
Monday, July 12, 2021

SRA, Golden Books, and Card Catalogs

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I took this picture in the hallway of our office.  What a great collection of classic educational materials.... A Library card catalog, ...
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Sunday, March 7, 2021

Edison Gold Moulded Records - Very Early Record Players

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 Here's a question that almost nobody seems to wonder about it except me.  What came first, the first voice recording or the first telep...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Mid Century Modern Green Dial Telephone

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Thanks to Etsy, I just added a Mid Century Modern dial phone to my collection. It’s got that green color so popular in the 1950s, 60s, and 7...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

About John Edelson and VocabularySpellingCity

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Hi, I’m the founder and president of VocabularySpellingCity.  Around the office, they sometimes call me the Mayor. Here’s the news:   We hav...
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