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BJ Sears The Mills Device
BJ Sears The Mills Device
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BJ Sears The Mills Device
USA, 2008-2010
mixed media, found objects and electronics
21.5 w x 13.5 d x 45.25 h inches
BJ Sears found a film taken by Thomas Edison of Paris in 1900. In 2006, Sears traveled to Paris and shot film of the same places from the same locations as Edison had over 100 years earlier. The Mills Device, formerly known as The Moving Picture Recursive Distillation Apparatus Series A, features these two films superimposed and projected on one of its ocular components.

This device was found in the summer home of Connecticut Senator Tristram H. Mills several years after his death in 1852. His grandson, Lowell R. Mills discovered the device. Apparently at some point during the Senator’s tenure it had been updated and converted to electrical power. It was operational at the time of its discovery and continues to update itself to this day. Lowell remembers his grandfather, who considered himself a liberal pluralist, using it to “take the pulse of the nation.” Senator Mills never revealed who invented it or how it operated. The initials “TD” are found on several parts. This may point to Thomas Davenport, a well-known inventor of the day and early adopter of electrical power.
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BJ Sears The Mills Device

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