A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The telephone: speech without walls.
The phonograph: music hall without walls.
The photograph: museum without walls.
The electric light: space without walls.
The movie, radio, and TV: classroom without walls.
Understanding Media (1964), MIT/Routledge edition, p 283
Year: 1964
Chapter: Museum
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Compiled by William Kuhns
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