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  1. Making the Perfect Record Jentery Sayers

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