Making the Perfect Record: From Inscription to Impression in Early Magnetic Recording

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Contents of this path:

  1. Introduction
  2. The Spirit of Sound
  3. The Telegraphone
  4. From Mechanical to Magnetic
  5. Smith's Projected Design
  6. Clarity--Even at a Distance
  7. Economic Constraints
  8. Marketing
  9. Leave a Message
  10. An Even Earlier Recording Device
  11. Remediating the Telephone
  12. Award-winning Technology
  13. The Myth of the Lone Inventor
  14. Providing a Technical Education
  15. Widespread Technical Applications
  16. Interoperability: The Missing Piece
  17. The Telegraphone and Arthur B. Reeve's Scientific Detective Fiction
  18. Reeve Advertises and Educates
  19. The Dangers of Scientific Realism
  20. Inspiration
  21. Writer and Crime Crusader
  22. Embellished Realism
  23. Disposing of the Evidence
  24. Developing the Telegraphone's Image
  25. Interdisciplinary Force
  26. Shaping the Telegraphone's Commodity Character
  27. A Prehistory for the Hard Drive
  28. Marketing the Telegraphone
  29. The Materiality of the Telegraphone
  30. References