{"id":8786,"date":"2011-10-19T13:01:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T13:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8786"},"modified":"2011-10-19T13:42:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T13:42:50","slug":"the-isolator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/8786","title":{"rendered":"The Isolator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8791\" title=\"The Isolator\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/isolator.jpg\" alt=\"The Isolator\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/isolator.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/isolator-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/isolator-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/isolator-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Invented by science fiction pioneer Hugi Gernsbeck, the \u201cIsolator\u201d was designed to help focus the mind when reading or writing, by rendering the wearer deaf, piping them full of oxygen, not only by eliminating all outside noise, but also by allowing just one line of text to be seen at a time through a horizontal slit.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img title=\"The Isolator\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/isolator2.jpg\" alt=\"The Isolator\" width=\"470\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img title=\"The Isolator\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/isolator1.jpg\" alt=\"The Isolator\" width=\"470\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These images are from the July, 1925 issue of the long-defunct magazine \u201cScience and Invention\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a title=\"Retrorambling\" href=\"http:\/\/retrorambling.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/14\/the-isolator\/\" target=\"_blank\">Retrorambling<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invented by science fiction pioneer Hugi Gernsbeck, the \u201cIsolator\u201d was designed to help focus the mind when reading or writing, by rendering the wearer deaf, piping them full of oxygen, not only by eliminating all outside noise, but also by allowing just one line of text to be seen at a time through a horizontal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6,1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8790,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions\/8790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}