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

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  1. Volume I of The Franklin Journal (June 1826)
  2. Clark's 19th-Century Thread-Spool (1884)
  3. Edison's 19th-Century Phonograph (1888)
  4. Some Possible Forms of Phonograph (8 September 1888)
  5. Excerpt of Some Possible Forms of Phonograph (8 September 1888)
  6. Figures 1 and 2, Some Possible Forms of Phonograph (8 September 1888)
  7. Edison's Display at the Paris Exhibition (1889)
  8. Clark's 19th-Century Spool of Thread (1896)
  9. Paris World Exposition Recording of Emperor Franz Joseph (1900)
  10. Two Images of the Telegraphone (1901)
  11. Poulsen's 20th-Century Telegraphone (1905)
  12. Relay Used to Start the Operation of the Telegraphone (May 1905)
  13. Poulsen's 20th-Century Apparatus for Storing Sound (1906)
  14. A Telegraphone of the Wire Type (1906)
  15. Smith's 20th-Century Press (1906)
  16. Then You Need a Telegraphone (1906)
  17. Excerpt of A Spool of Wire Speaks (December 1906)
  18. Second Excerpt of A Spool of Wire Speaks (December 1906)
  19. De Forest's 20th-Century Triode or Audion Amplifier (1907)
  20. Poulsen and Pedersen's 20th-Century Recording Magnet and Wire
  21. The Telegraphone at the Franklin Institute (December 1908)
  22. The Silent Bullet (1910)
  23. Excerpt of The Gamblers (1912)
  24. Makes the Telephone Record Itself (1913)
  25. Reeve's 20th-Century Eavesdroppers (July 1913)
  26. The Gamblers in Pearson's Magazine (January 1914, Vol. 31)
  27. The Dream Doctor (1914)
  28. Scientific Detective Monthly (November 1929)
  29. Reeve's The Clutching Hand (1936)
  30. IBM 305 RAMAC: Promotional Material (ca. 1956)
  31. Search at San Jose (ca. 1956)
  32. Reconstruction of Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory (2006)
  33. Poulsen's Telegraphone at Brede Works (2009)