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 Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Our New Thread21Details about Clark Thread Companyplain2013-12-26T08:17:52-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:33:30-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Metaphysics of Presence9On Derrida's response to the theological fetish of authenticity and presenceplain2013-12-26T08:20:10-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:11:48-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Always at a Loss10On Sterne's Response to the Notion that Reproduced Sound Is Always at a Lossplain2013-12-26T08:21:18-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:08:08-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Perceivable Traces9Peirce and Doane on the relation between index as point and index as impressionplain2013-12-19T09:48:14-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:54:41-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Magnetic Storage19On Matthew Kirschenbaum's recent work on magnetic recordingplain2013-12-19T10:29:04-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T14:03:06-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Automagical Transubstantiation10How attention to computer screens overlooks the material processes of electronicsplain2013-12-19T10:06:18-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T14:31:12-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Making Records11On Chun and Drucker's approach to the construction of records and dataplain2013-12-19T10:05:25-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T14:32:58-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Certainly Nothing Novel10On work by Babbage, Marx, and Plantplain2013-12-19T21:18:21-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:08:24-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Cylinder Phonograph5On Edison's storage medium for the phonographplain2013-12-19T10:31:47-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:09:15-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Scratchy Noise7Smith publishes his response to Edison's phonograph ten years after visiting Menlo Parkplain2013-12-19T10:26:50-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:10:40-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Offended Smith's Ears8Edison's phonograph is criticized for its lack of fidelityplain2013-12-19T10:34:02-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:13:12-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339“Talk Back”5Manual Playback Meets the Perfect Recordplain2013-12-26T09:26:48-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:11:30-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Incandescent Light5Edison's work on the electric light takes precedence over the phonographplain2013-12-19T10:42:09-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:12:54-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339His Writings on Magnetic Recording4Smith's notes were destroyed in two separate firesplain2013-12-19T10:44:02-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:13:49-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Technical World Magazine4Technical Word Magazine and Popular Mechanics merge in 1923plain2013-12-26T08:14:13-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:15:00-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Machine to Hear for Them4The history of sound reproduction technologies is imbricated with otology in the nineteenth centuryplain2013-12-19T11:22:08-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:16:36-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Office Records6Files are the training ground for administrative routineplain2013-12-19T11:24:18-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:18:11-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Two-Mile Spool of Wire5Stearns likely exaggerated the amount of audio that could be recorded onto wireplain2013-12-19T11:20:27-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:37:30-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Shouting into the Transmitter5Poulsen tests his recording device by speaking 'Yakob' into the microphoneplain2013-12-19T21:13:07-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:38:40-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Individually Listen3Electronic amplification was not popularized until the 1910splain2013-12-19T11:36:46-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:41:02-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Less-Reusable Options7Wax cylinders were a viable alternative to piano wire that could be used for rerecordingplain2013-12-19T11:34:34-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:46:34-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Hegelian Promise5Sterne addresses the Hegelian notion of a perfect synthesisplain2013-12-19T11:34:53-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:48:09-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Phonograph Cylinder or Gramophone Disk4Justification for use of "phonograph cylinder or gramophone disk"plain2013-12-19T12:04:49-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:51:02-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Poulsen Patented the Telegraphone4Poulsen's connections with a group of investors helped him to gain ownership over the rights to magnetic recording in thirty-eight countriesplain2013-12-19T12:03:28-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:52:11-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Wire or Strip3Poulsen's definition of "strip"plain2013-12-19T12:01:55-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:00:42-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Franz Joseph7Oldest accessible instance of magnetic recordingplain2013-12-19T12:19:19-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:02:38-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Poulsen and His Research Team6Poulsen's research colleaguesplain2013-12-19T12:17:16-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:09:36-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Science Fiction–Esque Performances4The telephone may not have been the focal point of the 1876 Exhibitionplain2013-12-19T12:18:29-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:17:07-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Fascinated Walter Benjamin7Benjamin, in The Arcades Project, on the Crystal Palace Exhibitionplain2013-12-19T16:05:43-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:19:23-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Myths of the Lone Inventor5Marx on the social and collective nature of technological developmentplain2013-12-19T16:06:22-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:24:29-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Textbook Hero5Textbook iterations of technological development often privilege the lone inventorplain2013-12-19T16:06:55-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:27:59-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Borne by a Genius Scientist or Engineer10The history of technology is frequently embedded in a male-birth narrativeplain2013-12-19T16:07:44-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:37:40-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Vaporware3The definition of vaporwareplain2013-12-19T16:01:48-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:40:23-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339The Intended Audience’s Attention5Jones suggests the focus of education should shift towards technology and scienceplain2013-12-19T16:14:55-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:42:48-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Potential Applications4A working model of the telegraphone was presented to attendees of the talkplain2013-12-19T18:40:50-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:46:59-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Variety of Conjectures4Fankhauser conjectures about the future of the telegraph, the telephone, and commercial stenography in light of the telegraphone's emergenceplain2013-12-19T18:42:29-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:03:12-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339The Human Stenographer5The limits of human stenographers are highlighted in the August 1913 issue of the Independentplain2013-12-19T18:44:13-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:11:03-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Loud, Clear, Reliable Sound6According to David Morton, Successful Remote Recording Relied on Electronic Signal Amplificationplain2013-12-26T11:01:36-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:14:15-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Cosmopolitan in December 19106The full title of Reeve's storyplain2013-12-26T08:16:31-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:16:35-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339The Silent Bullet7Publication history of "The Silent Bullet"plain2013-12-26T08:06:09-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:19:17-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Science Produced Gadgets5Ronald Thomas describes the function of forensic science in literatureplain2013-12-19T19:11:00-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:21:27-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339The Dream Doctor6Publication history of "The Dream Doctor"plain2013-12-26T08:07:24-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:25:48-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339The Moral Good5Reeve suggests scientific detective fiction warns criminals of the consequences of their behavior and inspires readers to pursue scienceplain2013-12-19T21:16:31-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:33:47-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Such as Thomas Edison4Thomas Edison reveals to Reeve that the only type of fiction he reads is detective fictionplain2013-12-19T19:23:33-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:37:07-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Hugo Gernsback4Introduced in 1930, "Scientific Detective Monthly" often published Reeve's workplain2013-12-19T19:38:56-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:39:33-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Tangible Correlation between Actuality and Fiction5Reeve's commentary on science and detective fiction in "What Are the Great Detective Stories and Why?"plain2013-12-19T19:38:04-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:41:20-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339His Genre Expanded into Film3Reeve began to write for film in the late 1910splain2013-12-19T19:46:24-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:58:29-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339An Explanation6The telegraphone's seemingly immaterial sound was created by a very clunky deviceplain2013-12-19T20:03:43-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T13:04:36-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Constance Dunlap, Woman Detective7Publication history of Constance Dunlap, Woman Detectiveplain2013-12-26T08:12:36-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T13:06:47-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Kennedy Is Not the Protagonist4Garrick is another instantiation of Kennedyplain2013-12-19T20:08:26-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T13:09:10-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339As with Kennedy5Kennedy's woman detective receives an informal educationplain2013-12-19T20:10:14-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T13:17:38-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Listen to Recordings5Dunlap's describes the science that undergirds the telegraphone.plain2013-12-19T20:11:44-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T13:37:19-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Erasure4With early magnetic media, complete erasure of content is not a givenplain2013-12-19T20:35:26-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T14:35:03-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Deliberately3In their unerring ways, Reeve's detectives are difficult to likeplain2013-12-19T20:34:06-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T13:41:51-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Rarely Mentioned4Early magnetic recording is often ignored in literary and cultural criticismplain2013-12-19T20:53:39-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T13:45:02-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Prehistory4Some developments in the history of magnetic recordingplain2013-12-19T20:56:11-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T13:54:32-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Prose Bordering on Science Fiction6On a medial ideology of early magnetic audioplain2013-12-19T21:03:41-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T14:06:29-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339An Immediate Medium6Conceptions of "medium" shift and proliferateplain2013-12-19T21:08:54-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339