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 RecordingMediaMedia 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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12013-10-12T16:54:32-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Clark Thread Company17Details about Clark Thread Companyplain2013-11-17T16:22:25-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:33:30-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Metaphysics of Presence6On Derrida's Response to the Theological Fetish of Authenticity and Presenceplain2013-11-17T16:22:36-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:11:48-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Negative Theory of Reproducibility7On Sterne's Response to the Notion that Reproduced Sound Is Always at a Lossplain2013-11-17T16:22:48-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:08:08-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339The Point or the Impression?6Peirce and Doane on the Relation between Index as Point and Index as Impressionplain2013-11-17T16:23:00-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:54:41-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Materialist Approach to Hard Drives14On Matthew Kirschenbaum's Recent Work on Magnetic Recordingplain2013-11-17T16:23:12-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T14:03:06-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Screen Essentialism7How Attention to Computer Screens Causes Us to Overlook the Material Processes of Electronic Mediaplain2013-11-17T16:23:26-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T14:25:00-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Speculative Approaches to Archives5On Kraus's Conjectural Criticismplain2013-11-17T16:35:38-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T14:31:12-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Made, Not Given or Taken7On Chun and Drucker's Approach to the Construction of Records and Dataplain2013-11-17T16:19:52-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T14:32:58-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Thread and Alienated Labor6On Work by Babbage, Marx, and Plantplain2013-11-17T16:40:08-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:08:24-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339The Use of Tinfoil in 18782On Edison's Storage Medium for the Phonographplain2013-11-17T16:39:48-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:37:30-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 202Poulsen tests his recording device by speaking 'Yakob' into the microphone.plain2013-11-08T15:48:25-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T10:38:40-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 211Listening was an individual experience.plain2013-10-14T10:38:40-07:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T10:51:02-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 251Poulsen's connections with a group of investors helped him to gain ownership over the rights to magnetic recording in thirty-eight countries.plain2013-10-14T10:51:02-07:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T10:52:11-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 261Poulsen's definition of "strip"plain2013-10-14T10:52:11-07:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:00:42-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 272Oldest accessible magnetic recordingplain2013-11-08T15:54:43-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:02:38-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 283Poulsen's research colleaguesplain2013-11-08T15:55:38-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:09:36-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 292The telephone may not have been the focal point of the 1876 Exhibitionplain2013-11-08T15:56:28-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:17:07-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 302Benjamin is intrigued by the large scale of the Great Exhibition, the lavish, temporary structures built for the occasion and the relationship of both with free trade and commodity culture.plain2013-11-08T15:57:10-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:19:23-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 312Marx on the collective nature of technological development.plain2013-11-08T15:57:53-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:24:29-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 322Textbook iterations of technological development are reductive.plain2013-11-08T15:59:08-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:27:59-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 332The history of technology follows an androcentric birth narrative.plain2013-11-08T15:59:54-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:32:14-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 342Kirschenbaum defines "medial ideology" as a more critical way to address technology that accounts for a medium as constructed by social and cultural history.plain2013-11-08T16:00:25-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:37:40-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 351Definition of vaporwareplain2013-10-14T11:37:40-07:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:40:23-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 361Focus in educationplain2013-10-14T11:40:23-07:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:42:48-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 371A working model of the telegraphone was presented to attendees.plain2013-10-14T11:42:48-07:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:46:59-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 382Fankhauser makes projections about the future of the telegraph, the telephone, and commercial stenography in light of new recording technology.plain2013-11-08T16:01:13-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:03:12-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 392In The Independent it is suggested that thhe telegraphone would have far-reaching implications in terms of translation.plain2013-11-08T16:02:02-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:11:03-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 402According to David Morton, successful remote recording relied on electronic signal amplification.plain2013-11-08T16:02:34-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:16:35-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 422Publication history of "The Silent Bullet"plain2013-11-08T16:03:10-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:19:17-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 432The function of forensic science in literatureplain2013-11-08T16:03:50-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:21:27-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 442Publication history of "The Dream Doctor"plain2013-11-08T16:04:31-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:25:48-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 452Reeve suggests scientific detective fiction warns criminals of the consequences of their behaviour and inspires readers to become pursue science in their studies.plain2013-11-08T16:05:28-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:33:47-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 462Thomas Edison reveals to Reeve that the only type of fiction he reads is detective fiction.plain2013-11-08T16:06:03-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:37:07-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 472"Scientific Detective Monthly" was publication that often published Reeve's work.plain2013-11-08T16:06:55-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:39:33-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 482Reeve elides science and detective stories in his essay, "What Are the Great Detective Stories and Why?"plain2013-11-08T16:07:29-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:41:20-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 491Reeve began to write for film in the late 1910s.plain2013-10-14T12:41:20-07:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:58:29-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 502Counterintuitively, the telegraphone's seemingly immaterial sound was created by a very clunky device.plain2013-11-08T16:09:14-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T13:04:36-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 512Publication history of "Constance Dunlap, Woman Detective"plain2013-11-08T16:10:00-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T13:06:47-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 521Garrick vs. Dunlapplain2013-10-14T13:06:49-07:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T13:09:10-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 531Education of the woman detectiveplain2013-10-14T13:09:11-07:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T13:17:38-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 542Dunlap's description of the telegraphone the science behind it as well as its erasability.plain2013-11-08T16:10:33-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T13:37:19-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 551Complete erasure was a challengeplain2013-10-14T13:37:19-07:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T14:35:03-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 561Technology in Reeve's scientific detective fiction is deterministic.plain2013-10-14T14:35:04-07:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T13:41:51-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 572Magnetic recording was hardly a notable achievement in a number of magazines/journals.plain2013-11-08T16:11:21-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T13:45:02-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 581Developments in magnetic recordingplain2013-10-14T13:45:03-07:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T13:54:32-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 592Guided by fiction, industry leaders often take a more critical approach to audio recording technology than academics do.plain2013-11-08T16:12:12-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T14:06:29-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Footnote 602Shifting and proliferating conceptions of "medium"plain2013-11-08T16:13:01-08:00Anonymous