In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
KINESCOPE
kinescope, picture tube, television tube
(noun) a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
kinescope (plural kinescopes)
A recording of a television broadcast made by filming the screen of a monitor; a telerecording.
(historical) An early television receiver tube.
Verb
kinescope (third-person singular simple present kinescopes, present participle kinescoping, simple past and past participle kinescoped)
(transitive) To record (a television broadcast) by filming the screen of a monitor.
Source: Wiktionary
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COMMUNICATIONS
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
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