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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12013-11-16T22:12:19-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca53392497Notes for “Making the Perfect Record,” American Literature 85.4 (December 2013), http://10.1215/00029831-2370230, Duke U Pplain84242013-12-27T07:16:10-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339This path contains all notes for this essay. They are organized in order of their appearance in the argument, which begins with the page titled, “Introduction.”
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12013-10-12T16:54:32-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339“Our New Thread”26Details about Clark Thread Companyplain2014-01-01T17:00:57-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:33:30-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Metaphysics of Presence11On Derrida's Response to the Theological Fetish of Authenticity and Presenceplain2014-01-01T17:01:44-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:11:48-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Always at a Loss13On Sterne’s Response to the Notion that Reproduced Sound Is Always at a Lossplain2014-01-01T17:02:32-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:08:08-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Perceivable Traces11Peirce and Doane on the Relation between Index as Point and Index as Impressionplain2014-01-01T17:04:18-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:54:41-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Magnetic Storage21On Matthew Kirschenbaum’s Magnetic Recording Researchplain2014-01-01T17:04:51-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T14:03:06-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Automagical Transubstantiation13How Attention to Computer Screens Overlooks the Material Processes of Electronicsplain2014-01-01T17:05:54-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T14:31:12-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Making Records13On Chun's and Drucker’s Approaches to the Construction of Records and Dataplain2014-01-01T17:07:19-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T14:32:58-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Certainly Nothing Novel14On Work by Babbage, Marx, and Plantplain2014-01-01T17:08:07-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:08:24-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Cylinder Phonograph7On Edison’s Storage Medium for the Phonographplain2014-01-01T17:09:03-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:09:15-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Scratchy Noise9Smith Publishes His Response to Edison’s Phonograph Ten Years after Visiting Menlo Parkplain2014-01-01T17:09:39-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:10:40-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Offended Smith’s Ears10Edison’s Phonograph Is Criticized for Its Lack of Fidelityplain2014-01-01T17:10:29-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:13:12-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339“Talk Back”7Manual Playback Meets the Perfect Recordplain2014-01-01T17:11:14-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:11:30-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Incandescent Light8Edison’s Work on Electric Light Takes Precedence over Phonographyplain2014-01-01T17:11:55-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:12:54-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339His Writings on Magnetic Recording6Smith’s Notes Were Destroyed in Two Separate Firesplain2014-01-01T17:12:43-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:13:49-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Technical World Magazine6Technical Word Magazine and Popular Mechanics Merge in 1923plain2014-01-01T17:13:39-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:15:00-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Machine to Hear for Them7The History of Sound Reproduction Technologies Is Imbricated with Otology in the Nineteenth Centuryplain2014-01-01T17:14:15-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:16:36-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Office Records10Files Are the Training Ground for Administrative Routineplain2014-01-01T17:14:55-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-12T17:18:11-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Two-Mile Spool of Wire7Stearns Likely Exaggerated the Amount of Audio that Could Be Recorded onto Wireplain2014-01-01T17:15:43-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:37:30-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Shouting into the Transmitter8Poulsen Tests His Recording Device by Speaking “Yakob” into the Microphoneplain2014-01-01T17:18:30-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:38:40-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Individually Listen5Electronic Amplification Was Not Popularized until the 1910splain2014-01-01T17:19:10-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:41:02-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Less-Reusable Options9Comparing Wax Cylinders with Piano Wireplain2014-01-01T17:20:04-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:46:34-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Hegelian Promise8Sterne Addresses the Hegelian Notion of a Perfect Synthesisplain2014-01-01T17:20:47-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:48:09-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Phonograph Cylinder or Gramophone Disk7On the Emergence of Phonograph Disks and the Use of Disk Instead of Discplain2014-01-01T17:21:36-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:51:02-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Poulsen Patented the Telegraphone7In Thirty-Eight Countries, Poulsen Gained Ownership over the Rights to Magnetic Recordingplain2014-01-01T17:22:18-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T10:52:11-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Wire or Strip5Poulsen's Definition of "Strip"plain2014-01-01T17:23:00-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:00:42-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Franz Joseph9On the Oldest Accessible Instance of Magnetic Recordingplain2014-01-01T17:23:48-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:02:38-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Poulsen and His Research Team8Details about Poulsen’s Research Teamplain2014-01-01T17:24:47-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:09:36-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Science Fiction–Esque Performances6The Telephone May Not Have Been the Focal Point of the 1876 Exhibitionplain2014-01-01T17:25:35-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:17:07-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Fascinated Walter Benjamin10Benjamin, in The Arcades Project, on the Crystal Palace Exhibitionplain2014-01-01T17:26:09-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:19:23-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Myths of the Lone Inventor8Marx on the Social and Collective Character of Technological Developmentplain2014-01-01T17:27:33-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:24:29-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Textbook Hero7Textbook Iterations of Technological Development Often Privilege the Lone Inventorplain2014-01-01T17:28:07-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:27:59-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Borne by a Genius Scientist or Engineer12The History of Technology Is Frequently Embedded in a Male-Birth Narrativeplain2014-01-01T17:29:26-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:32:14-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Medial Ideology9Kirschenbaum Describes a Medial Ideologyplain2014-01-01T17:30:09-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:37:40-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Vaporware5The Definition of Vaporwareplain2014-01-01T17:30:38-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:40:23-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339The Intended Audience’s Attention8Jones Suggests the Focus of Education Should Shift towards Technology and Scienceplain2014-01-01T17:31:10-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:42:48-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Potential Applications6A Working Model of the Telegraphone Was Presented to Attendees of Fankhauser's Franklin Institute Talkplain2014-01-01T17:31:49-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T11:46:59-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Variety of Conjectures6Fankhauser Conjectures about the Future of the Telegraph, the Telephone, and Commercial Stenography in Light of the Telegraphone's Emergenceplain2014-01-01T17:32:37-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:03:12-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339The Human Stenographer7The Limits of Human Stenographers Are Highlighted in the August 1913 Issue of the Independentplain2014-01-01T17:33:15-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:11:03-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Loud, Clear, Reliable Sound8According to David Morton, Successful Remote Recording Relied on Electronic Signal Amplificationplain2014-01-01T17:34:01-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:14:15-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Cosmopolitan in December 19108The Full Title of Reeve’s Storyplain2014-01-01T17:34:58-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:16:35-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339The Silent Bullet9Publication History of The Silent Bulletplain2014-01-01T17:35:47-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:19:17-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Science Produced Gadgets7Ronald Thomas Describes the Function of Forensic Science in Literatureplain2014-01-01T17:36:24-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:21:27-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339The Dream Doctor8Publication History of The Dream Doctorplain2014-01-01T17:37:04-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:25:48-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339The Moral Good7Scientific Detective Fiction Fights Crime and Fosters the Moral Goodplain2014-01-01T17:37:38-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:33:47-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Such as Thomas Edison6Thomas Edison Reads Detective Fiction and Laments the Loss of Gaboriauplain2014-01-01T17:38:13-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:37:07-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Hugo Gernsback7Introduced in 1930, Scientific Detective Monthly Frequently Published Reeve’s Workplain2014-01-01T17:39:07-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:39:33-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Tangible Correlation between Actuality and Fiction7Reeve’s Commentary on Science and Detective Fiction in "What Are the Great Detective Stories and Why?"plain2014-01-01T17:39:41-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:41:20-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339His Genre Expanded into Film5Reeve Began to Write for Film in the Late 1910splain2014-01-01T17:40:23-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T12:58:29-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339An Explanation8The Telegraphone's Immaterial Sound Was Created by a Clunky Deviceplain2014-01-01T17:40:58-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T13:04:36-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Constance Dunlap, Woman Detective10Publication History of Constance Dunlap, Woman Detectiveplain2014-01-01T17:41:55-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T13:06:47-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Kennedy Is Not the Protagonist6Guy Garrick: Another Instantiation of Kennedyplain2014-01-01T17:42:45-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T13:09:10-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339As with Kennedy7Kennedy’s Woman Detective Receives an Informal Educationplain2014-01-01T17:43:21-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T13:17:38-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Listen to Recordings8Dunlap Describes the Science of the Telegraphoneplain2014-01-01T17:43:59-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T13:37:19-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Erasure6With Early Magnetic Media, Complete Erasure of Content Was Not a Givenplain2014-01-01T17:44:30-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T14:35:03-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Deliberately5In Their Unerring Ways, Reeve’s Detectives Are Difficult to Likeplain2014-01-01T17:45:20-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T13:41:51-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Rarely Mentioned6Early Magnetic Recording Is Often Ignored in Literary and Cultural Criticismplain2014-01-01T17:46:05-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T13:45:02-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339A Prehistory7Some Developments in the History of Magnetic Recordingplain2014-01-01T17:46:59-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T13:54:32-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339Prose Bordering on Science Fiction8On a Medial Ideology of Early Magnetic Audioplain2014-01-01T17:47:44-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
12013-10-14T14:06:29-07:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339An Immediate Medium8Conceptions of "Medium" Shift and Proliferateplain2014-01-01T17:48:27-08:00Jentery Sayersbecbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339
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12013-11-17T08:30:11-08:00Introduction34Introduction to Making the Perfect Record: From Inscription to Impression in Early Magnetic Recordingplain2014-01-01T07:47:57-08:00