Making the Perfect Record: From Inscription to Impression in Early Magnetic RecordingMain MenuAboutAbstract for “Making the Perfect Record,” American Literature 85.4 (December 2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2370230, Duke U PIntroductionIntroduction to Making the Perfect Record: From Inscription to Impression in Early Magnetic RecordingNotesNotes for “Making the Perfect Record,” American Literature 85.4 (December 2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2370230, Duke U PAcknowledgmentsAcknowledgments for “Making the Perfect Record,” American Literature 85.4 (December 2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2370230, Duke U PTechnical InformationTechnical Information for “Making the Perfect Record,” American Literature 85.4 (December 2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2370230, Duke U PReferencesReferences for “Making the Perfect Record,” American Literature 85.4 (December 2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2370230, Duke U PJentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339This essay is part of the “New Media” special issue of American Literature (volume 85, number 4, December 2013). See http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2370230. Version 1 of the site is (c) 2013 by Duke University Press.
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12013-11-26T14:30:08-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca53392495All Media for Making the Perfect Record, American Literature 85.4 (December 2013), http://10.1215/00029831-2370230, Duke U Pplain83872013-12-19T08:51:35-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339This path contains all media referenced in this essay.
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12013-12-13T17:45:30-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Volume I of The Franklin Journal (June 1826)2Thomas P. Jones, ed., under the patronage of the Franklin Institutemedia/franklinjournal.pngplain2013-12-13T17:49:53-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-11-26T14:18:39-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Clark's 19th-Century Thread-Spool (1884)7William Clark, US Patent 299739 A, for a thread-spoolmedia/clarkthreadspool.pngplain2013-12-19T08:38:37-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-11-17T10:48:12-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Edison's 19th-Century Phonograph (1888)7Thomas A. Edison, US Patent 386974 A, for the phonographmedia/edisonphonograph.pngplain2013-12-19T08:39:30-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-11-16T23:17:22-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Some Possible Forms of Phonograph (8 September 1888)4Oberlin Smith, The Electrical World, 116-17media/possibleforms.pngplain2013-12-13T13:50:23-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-12T11:26:57-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Excerpt of Some Possible Forms of Phonograph (8 September 1888)3Oberlin Smith, The Electrical World, 116media/possibleformsdetail.pngplain2013-12-13T13:52:30-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-17T09:41:20-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Figures 1 and 2, Some Possible Forms of Phonograph (8 September 1888)3Oberlin Smith, The Electrical World (September 1888), 116media/possibleformsfig1and2.pngplain2013-12-19T06:07:53-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-13T17:16:38-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Edison's Display at the Paris Exhibition (1889)3From: The Paris universal exhibition album, 1889 = Exposition universelle de Paris = la Exposicion universal de Paris / published under the patronage of the American Commissionmedia/edisonparisdisplay.jpgplain2013-12-13T17:43:56-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-11-17T10:14:15-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Clark's 19th-Century Spool of Thread (1896)11William Clark, US Patent 555498 A, for core or spool for balls of threadmedia/clarkpatent.pngplain2013-12-19T08:38:27-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-13T15:08:22-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Paris World Exposition Recording of Emperor Franz Joseph (1900)3Recorded by Valdemar Poulsen using a telegraphonemedia/franzjoseph1900.mp3plain2013-12-19T08:41:54-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-19T08:24:44-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Two Images of the Telegraphone (1901)2From Popular Science Monthly 59 (May-Oct. 1901)media/telegraphonetwo.pngplain2013-12-19T08:27:43-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-11-17T15:35:24-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Poulsen's 20th-Century Telegraphone (1905)5Valdemar Poulsen, Peder O Pedersen, Carl Schou, US Patent 789336 A, for the telegraphonemedia/poulsentelegraphone.pngplain2013-12-19T08:40:34-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-19T06:03:00-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Relay Used to Start the Operation of the Telegraphone (May 1905)2Telephone Magazine (May 1905), 300media/telegraphonerelay.pngplain2013-12-19T06:06:11-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-13T14:51:47-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Poulsen's 20th-Century Apparatus for Storing Sound (1906)4Valdemar Poulsen, US Patent 822222A, apparatus for effecting the storing up of speech or signalsmedia/poulsenstoring.pngplain2013-12-19T08:40:45-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-17T16:25:53-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Telegraphone of the Wire Type (1906)2Image for a Telegraphone care of Technical World Magazine (1906)media/telegraphoneofwiretype.pngplain2013-12-17T16:28:57-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-12T12:03:19-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Smith's 20th-Century Press (1906)4Oberlin Smith, US Patent 808694 A, for a pressmedia/smithpress.pngplain2013-12-19T08:42:27-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-19T08:18:28-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Then You Need a Telegraphone (1906)2From the Magazine of Business (July-December 1906)media/needtelegraphone.pngplain2013-12-19T08:21:05-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-13T13:03:51-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Excerpt of A Spool of Wire Speaks (December 1906)4E.F. Stearns, A Spool of Wire Speaks, 409media/stearnsspool.pngplain2013-12-17T10:11:03-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-17T10:07:49-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Second Excerpt of A Spool of Wire Speaks (December 1906)4E.F. Stearns, A Spool of Wire Speaks, 412media/stearnsspool2.pngplain2013-12-17T10:12:17-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-14T06:38:41-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339De Forest's 20th-Century Triode or Audion Amplifier (1907)4Lee De Forest, US Patent 841386 A, for wireless telegaphy and the audion amplifiermedia/deforestaudion.pngplain2013-12-19T08:41:17-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-13T14:20:03-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Poulsen and Pedersen's 20th-Century Recording Magnet and Wire3Valdemar Poulsen and Peder Olof Pedersen, US Patent 873083 A, for the telegraphonemedia/poulsenwire.pngplain2013-12-13T14:22:50-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-13T18:03:12-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339The Telegraphone at the Franklin Institute (December 1908)2Charles K. Fankhauser, Journal of the Franklin Institute (1909), 37media/franklinjournal2.pngplain2013-12-13T18:08:38-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-17T11:34:47-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Excerpt of The Gamblers (1912)2Arthur B. Reeve, "The Gamblers" (1912, 121)media/gamblers.pngplain2013-12-17T11:37:29-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-19T08:11:02-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Makes the Telephone Record Itself (1913)2From Out West 5.3 (1913), 210media/telegraphonecaricature.pngplain2013-12-19T08:14:31-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-14T09:18:37-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Reeve's 20th-Century Eavesdroppers (July 1913)3Arthur Little, for Arthur B. Reeve and the San Francisco Call (1913), 5media/eavesdroppers.pngplain2013-12-14T09:26:26-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-17T10:55:30-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339The Gamblers in Pearson's Magazine (January 1914, Vol. 31)2Constance Dunlap on the Cover of Pearson's (January 1914)media/dunlap.jpgplain2013-12-17T10:58:45-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-14T07:33:27-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339The Dream Doctor (1914)2Arthur B. Reeve, Harper & Brothers (1914), 201media/reevedreamdoctor.pngplain2013-12-14T07:36:01-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-14T09:47:23-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Scientific Detective Monthly (November 1929)2From Dummy Edition of Scientific Detective Monthly, Hugo Gernsback, ed. (1929)media/scifidetective.pngplain2013-12-14T09:53:01-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-17T10:26:53-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Reeve's The Clutching Hand (1936)2Excerpt of Radio Version of Reeve's The Clutching Hand (1936)media/kennedy.mp3plain2013-12-17T10:31:56-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-19T07:07:36-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339IBM 305 RAMAC: Promotional Material (ca. 1956)2Promotional Video for the IBM 305 RAMAC (the first commercial computer that used a moving head hard disk drive)plain2013-12-19T07:09:46-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-19T06:59:15-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Search at San Jose (ca. 1956)2Promotional Video for IBM 305 RAMAC (the first commercial computer with a moving head hard disk drive)plain2013-12-19T07:03:04-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-12T10:45:23-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Reconstruction of Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory (2006)4Greenfield Village, Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michiganmedia/menlopark.jpgplain2013-12-19T08:39:44-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-12-14T10:45:43-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Poulsen's Telegraphone at Brede Works (2009)4Poulsen's Telegraphone at Brede Works Museum of Industrial Culturemedia/telegraphone.jpgplain2013-12-19T08:40:24-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339