ocr: Takingits name from the movie theater that James Joyce opened in Irieste in 1909, this CD-ROM is a book, a virtuoso performance piece, a reverie about electricity and its transtorming power. In twelve stories artist/narrator James Petrillo examines the diverse accomplishments and strange lives of great inventors of the nineteenth century: Alessandro Volta, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Samuel Morse, and Nicola Tesla (the inventors of the battery, the telephone, the electric chair, and waxed paper, among other things). In an arestingjuxtaposition, Petrillo places these inventions and th ...
