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 Company18Details about Clark Thread Companyplain2013-11-19T15:21:32-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T10:33:30-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Metaphysics of Presence7On Derrida's Response to the Theological Fetish of Authenticity and Presenceplain2013-11-18T16:07:50-08:00Anonymous
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?7Peirce and Doane on the Relation between Index as Point and Index as Impressionplain2013-11-18T16:08:42-08:00Anonymous
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 Essentialism8How Attention to Computer Screens Causes Us to Overlook the Material Processes of Electronic Mediaplain2013-11-18T16:09:11-08:00Anonymous
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 Taken9On Chun and Drucker's Approach to the Construction of Records and Dataplain2013-11-18T16:10:31-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T14:32:58-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Thread and Alienated Labor7On Work by Babbage, Marx, and Plantplain2013-11-18T16:11:06-08:00Anonymous
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
12013-10-12T17:09:15-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Smith Withholds His Response5Smith publishes his response to Edison's phonograph ten years late.plain2013-11-19T15:29:17-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-12T17:10:40-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339More Issues With Edison's Phonograph5Edison's Phonograph is criticized for its unreliability.plain2013-11-18T16:12:12-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-12T17:13:12-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Human Fallibility2Human fallibility prevents playback of a perfect record.plain2013-11-18T09:48:54-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-12T17:11:30-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339The Electric Light Takes Precedence3Edison's work on the electric light takes precedence over the phonograph.plain2013-11-18T09:51:37-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-12T17:12:54-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Results Lost in The Fire3Smith's notes were destroyed in two separate fires.plain2013-11-18T11:53:33-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-12T17:13:49-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Merger2Technical Word Magazine and Popular Mechanics amalgamate in 1923.plain2013-11-18T10:00:34-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-12T17:15:00-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Disembodied Listening3The history of sound reproduction technologies is imbricated in the abstracted scientific study of the ear during the eighteenth century.plain2013-11-18T10:13:09-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-12T17:16:36-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Site of Praxis3The records are a a site of praxis in addition to being the product of administration.plain2013-11-18T10:21:51-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-12T17:18:11-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339An Exaggerated Statement of Output3Stearns likely exaggerated the amount of audio that could be recoded on his answering machine.plain2013-11-18T10:26:59-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T10:37:30-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Fickle Recording Apparatus3Poulsen tests his recording device by speaking 'Yakob' into the microphone.plain2013-11-18T10:39:19-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T10:38:40-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Individual Listening2Listening was an individual experience.plain2013-11-18T10:40:12-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T10:41:02-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Additional Rewritable Media5Wax cylinders were a viable alternative to piano wire that could be used for rerecording.plain2013-11-19T15:33:29-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T10:46:34-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Perfect Synthesis3Sterne addresses the Hegelian notion incorporation in sound reproduction.plain2013-11-18T10:45:35-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T10:48:09-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Disambiguation3Justification for use of "phonograph cylinder or gramophone disk"plain2013-11-18T10:48:13-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T10:51:02-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Acquiring a Patent3Poulsen's connections with a group of investors helped him to gain ownership over the rights to magnetic recording in thirty-eight countries.plain2013-11-19T15:34:21-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T10:52:11-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339"Strip"2Poulsen's definition of "strip"plain2013-11-18T10:50:28-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:00:42-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339An Early Recording4Oldest accessible instance of magnetic recording.plain2013-11-19T15:34:58-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:02:38-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Poulsen's Research Team5Poulsen's research colleaguesplain2013-11-18T10:57:48-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:09:36-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Conjectures on the 1876 Exhibition3The telephone may not have been the focal point of the 1876 Exhibition.plain2013-11-18T11:00:37-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:17:07-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Fascinated by the Grandiose and Ephemeral6Benjamin 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.plain2013-11-18T16:14:30-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:19:23-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Technological Development is Collective4Marx on the collective nature of technological development.plain2013-11-18T16:15:05-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:24:29-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Reductive Myths3Textbook iterations of technological development are reductive.plain2013-11-18T11:25:38-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:27:59-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Male-Birth Model8The history of technology is embedded in a male-birth narrative.plain2013-11-19T15:38:05-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:32:14-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Medial Ideology5Kirschenbaum defines "medial ideology" as a critical way of addressing technology that accounts for a medium as constructed by social and cultural history.plain2013-11-18T16:15:39-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:37:40-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Vaporware2The definition of vaporware.plain2013-11-18T11:49:08-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:40:23-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Advocating for Instruction4Jones suggests the focus in education shift towards technology and science.plain2013-11-19T15:40:14-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:42:48-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Demonstration3A working model of the telegraphone was presented to attendees of the talk.plain2013-11-19T15:40:54-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T11:46:59-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Waning Significance3Fankhauser makes projections about the future of the telegraph, the telephone, and commercial stenography in light of new recording technologies.plain2013-11-18T11:57:22-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:03:12-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339No Need for a Polyglot4In The Independent it is suggested that thhe telegraphone would have far-reaching implications in terms of translation.plain2013-11-19T15:45:49-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:11:03-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Amplifying the Signal4According to David Morton, successful remote recording relied on electronic signal amplification.plain2013-11-19T15:46:24-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:16:35-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Publication History of "The Silent Bullet"5Publication history of "The Silent Bullet"plain2013-11-18T16:17:11-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:19:17-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Forensic Science and Literature4Ronald Thomas describes he function of forensic science in literature.plain2013-11-19T15:49:19-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:21:27-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Publication History of "The Dream Doctor"4Publication history of "The Dream Doctor"plain2013-11-18T16:18:35-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:25:48-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Fiction that Serves the Common Good3Reeve suggests scientific detective fiction warns criminals of the consequences of their behaviour and inspires readers to become pursue science in their studies.plain2013-11-18T12:14:07-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:33:47-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Edison Reads Detective Fiction3Thomas Edison reveals to Reeve that the only type of fiction he reads is detective fiction.plain2013-11-18T12:20:53-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:37:07-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Reeve's Role in "Scientific Detective Monthly"3"Scientific Detective Monthly" often published Reeve's work.plain2013-11-18T12:22:50-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:39:33-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Science is a Type of Detective Fiction3Reeve elides science and detective fiction in his essay, "What Are the Great Detective Stories and Why?"plain2013-11-18T12:24:12-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:41:20-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Writing for Film2Reeve began to write for film in the late 1910s.plain2013-11-18T12:24:56-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T12:58:29-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Clunky Recording Device4Counterintuitively, the telegraphone's seemingly immaterial sound was created by a very clunky device.plain2013-11-18T12:30:12-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T13:04:36-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Publication History of "Constance Dunlap, Woman Detective"3Publication history of "Constance Dunlap, Woman Detective"plain2013-11-18T12:27:13-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T13:06:47-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Garrick vs. Dunlap2Garrick is another instantiation of Kennedy.plain2013-11-18T12:28:46-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T13:17:38-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Dunlap's Scientific Portrait3Dunlap's describes the science that undergirds the telegraphone.plain2013-11-18T15:09:26-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T13:37:19-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Erasing Sensory Memory3Complete erasure was a challengeplain2013-11-19T15:52:29-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T14:35:03-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Unerring, Unnatural Detectives2In their unerring ways, Reeve's detectives lack a human quality.plain2013-11-18T15:19:29-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T13:41:51-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339An Overlooked Accomplishment3Magnetic recording is not featured notable achievement in "The Audible Past" or "Gramophone, Film, Typewriter".plain2013-11-18T15:21:59-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T13:45:02-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Anticipating the Hard Drive2Developments in magnetic recordingplain2013-11-18T15:24:29-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T13:54:32-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339From Industry to the Intellectual5Guided by fiction, industry leaders often take a more critical approach to audio recording technology than academics do.plain2013-11-19T15:53:03-08:00Anonymous
12013-10-14T14:06:29-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Semantic Shift5Conceptions of "medium" shift and proliferate.plain2013-11-18T16:22:31-08:00Anonymous