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Scene: A Chicago speakeasy, 1925
Fits: A Ford Model T parked outside. The Model T was introduced on October 1, 1908.
Source: Wikipedia: Ford Model T
ANACHRONISM: A ballpoint pen on the bar. László Bíró filed his British ballpoint patent on 15 June 1938.
Source: Wikipedia: Ballpoint pen
Fits: Electric light bulbs. Historians credit Edison with the first practical incandescent lamp, decades earlier.
Fits: A phonograph playing jazz. Edison invented the phonograph in 1877.
Source: Wikipedia: Phonograph
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