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1. 1 2013-10-11T13:34:29-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 The Spirit of Sound 2 The notion of the aura of immaterial sound preceding the recording process is a cultural construction plain 2013-11-08T14:05:08-08:00 Anonymous
2. 1 2013-10-18T13:13:15-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 The Telegraphone 2 The telegraphone was prematurely delegated a number of uses and imbued with a number of meanings before it became widely available. plain 2013-11-08T15:26:56-08:00 Anonymous
3. 1 2013-10-18T12:58:57-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 From Mechanical to Magnetic 2 Smith was prompted to develop magnetic recording after visiting Edison's laboratory; he was struck by the poor quality of Edison's mechanically recorded sound. plain 2013-11-08T15:24:54-08:00 Anonymous
4. 1 2013-10-11T13:59:47-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Smith's Projected Design 2 Smith projects a range of uses and mechanisms for magnetic recording plain 2013-11-08T14:14:58-08:00 Anonymous
5. 1 2013-10-11T13:09:45-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Clarity--Even at a Distance 2 The high aesthetic quality of recordings enhances the clarity of communications and induces alienating effects plain 2013-11-08T14:03:06-08:00 Anonymous
6. 1 2013-10-14T17:45:39-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Economic Constraints 2 Thread was not an economically sustainable medium to use for magnetic recording. plain 2013-11-08T14:32:23-08:00 Anonymous
7. 1 2013-10-11T12:17:27-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Marketing 2 Transforming Smith's idea into a marketable technology plain 2013-11-08T13:56:50-08:00 Anonymous
8. 1 2013-10-18T10:13:53-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Leave a Message 2 Message recording allowed people to be available in multiple locations at the same time. plain 2013-11-08T14:56:39-08:00 Anonymous
9. 1 2013-10-18T10:46:13-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 An Even Earlier Recording Device 2 Valdemar Poulsen developed a recording mechanism in 1898 using piano wire. plain 2013-11-08T15:14:25-08:00 Anonymous
10. 1 2013-10-18T11:11:54-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Remediating the Telephone 2 The most significant application of the telegraphone was thought to be its ability to record telephone messages; remediating the telephone was essential for creating an answering machine. plain 2013-11-08T15:22:31-08:00 Anonymous
11. 1 2013-10-14T18:25:56-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Award-winning Technology 2 The telegraphone was an award-winning product at the 1900 Paris World Exhibition. plain 2013-11-08T14:54:20-08:00 Anonymous
12. 1 2013-10-14T18:17:11-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 The Myth of the Lone Inventor 2 Scientific exhibitions often give the impression that inventors work and succeed individually by masking all of the work that went into a product for the sake of the shock value that having a new product simply "appear" would have on an audience. plain 2013-11-08T14:50:39-08:00 Anonymous
13. 1 2013-10-11T14:18:27-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Providing a Technical Education 2 The Franklin Institute strives to give the general public a knowledge of the mechanical arts plain 2013-11-08T14:27:30-08:00 Anonymous
14. 1 2013-10-11T12:28:27-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Widespread Technical Applications 3 Fankhauser projects that the telegraphone will radically change most aspects of social life plain 2013-11-08T14:00:48-08:00 Anonymous
15. 1 2013-10-14T18:03:56-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Interoperability: The Missing Piece 2 The uses of the telegraphone could not scale up because it did not integrate well with the existing infrastructure. plain 2013-11-08T14:47:31-08:00 Anonymous
16. 1 2013-10-11T14:05:05-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 The Telegraphone and Arthur B. Reeve's Scientific Detective Fiction 2 Reeve demonstrates the applications of science in his detective fiction plain 2013-11-08T14:24:27-08:00 Anonymous
17. 1 2013-10-11T14:11:04-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Reeve Advertises and Educates 2 Reeve brings new technology into the mainstream in his scientific detective fiction plain 2013-11-08T14:25:32-08:00 Anonymous
18. 1 2013-10-11T13:53:58-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 The Dangers of Scientific Realism 2 It was feared that Reeve's scientific realism would engender potentially dangerous forms of scientific experimentation among his readership plain 2013-11-08T14:13:30-08:00 Anonymous
19. 1 2013-10-14T17:48:28-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Inspiration 3 Reeve was a key actor in spreading scientific knowledge to the masses through his scientific realist detective stories. plain 2013-11-08T14:39:14-08:00 Anonymous
20. 1 2013-10-21T10:16:41-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Writer and Crime Crusader 2 plain 2013-11-08T15:21:08-08:00 Anonymous
21. 1 2013-10-11T14:31:26-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Embellished Realism 2 Reeve exaggerates his descriptions of the telegraphone plain 2013-11-08T14:28:52-08:00 Anonymous
22. 1 2013-10-14T10:31:33-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Disposing of the Evidence 2 The telegraphone threatens to become an arbiter of the law in "The Gamblers," but the potential to erase the audio evidence gives Dunlap the sense that he can also wipe human memory clean. plain 2013-11-08T14:29:57-08:00 Anonymous
23. 1 2013-10-18T10:41:30-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Developing the Telegraphone's Image 2 It is productive to look at Reeve's descriptions of the telegraphone as part and parcel of the larger project, which fostered technological knowledge across disciplines. plain 2013-11-08T15:06:47-08:00 Anonymous
24. 1 2013-10-14T18:00:12-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Interdisciplinary Force 2 The telegraphone's ideologies remained consistent in spite of its interdisciplinary use and influence. plain 2013-11-08T14:40:14-08:00 Anonymous
25. 1 2013-10-11T13:38:29-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Shaping the Telegraphone's Commodity Character 2 The functional and social impact of the telegraphone preceded its actualization plain 2013-11-08T14:06:31-08:00 Anonymous
26. 1 2013-10-18T11:00:35-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 A Prehistory for the Hard Drive 2 Though the telegraphone never became a pervasive device in society, it can be investigated as an antecedent to the hard drive. plain 2013-11-08T15:18:04-08:00 Anonymous
27. 1 2013-10-14T18:22:29-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 Marketing the Telegraphone 2 Marketing for the telegraphone emphasized and exaggerated its best aspects: clear audio, re-writability, and productive listening; fiction in "expert" texts can be just as rampant as in something like a detective novel. plain 2013-11-08T14:51:37-08:00 Anonymous
28. 1 2013-10-14T18:23:48-07:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 The Materiality of the Telegraphone 2 Thesis plain 2013-11-08T14:52:50-08:00 Anonymous