Making the Perfect Record: From Inscription to Impression in Early Magnetic Recording Main Menu About Abstract for “Making the Perfect Record,” American Literature 85.4 (December 2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2370230, Duke U P Introduction Introduction to Making the Perfect Record: From Inscription to Impression in Early Magnetic Recording Media Media for “Making the Perfect Record,” American Literature 85.4 (December 2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2370230, Duke U P Acknowledgments Acknowledgments for “Making the Perfect Record,” American Literature 85.4 (December 2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2370230, Duke U P Technical Information Technical Information for “Making the Perfect Record,” American Literature 85.4 (December 2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2370230, Duke U P References References for “Making the Perfect Record,” American Literature 85.4 (December 2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2370230, Duke U P This 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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Contents of this path:

  1. “Our New Thread”
  2. Metaphysics of Presence
  3. Always at a Loss
  4. Perceivable Traces
  5. Magnetic Storage
  6. Automagical Transubstantiation
  7. Some Speculation
  8. Making Records
  9. Certainly Nothing Novel
  10. Cylinder Phonograph
  11. Scratchy Noise
  12. Offended Smith’s Ears
  13. “Talk Back”
  14. Incandescent Light
  15. His Writings on Magnetic Recording
  16. Technical World Magazine
  17. A Machine to Hear for Them
  18. Office Records
  19. A Two-Mile Spool of Wire
  20. Shouting into the Transmitter
  21. Individually Listen
  22. Less-Reusable Options
  23. A Hegelian Promise
  24. Phonograph Cylinder or Gramophone Disk
  25. Poulsen Patented the Telegraphone
  26. A Wire or Strip
  27. Franz Joseph
  28. Poulsen and His Research Team
  29. Science Fiction–Esque Performances
  30. Fascinated Walter Benjamin
  31. Myths of the Lone Inventor
  32. Textbook Hero
  33. Borne by a Genius Scientist or Engineer
  34. Medial Ideology
  35. Vaporware
  36. The Intended Audience’s Attention
  37. Potential Applications
  38. A Variety of Conjectures
  39. The Human Stenographer
  40. Loud, Clear, Reliable Sound
  41. Cosmopolitan in December 1910
  42. The Silent Bullet
  43. Science Produced Gadgets
  44. The Dream Doctor
  45. The Moral Good
  46. Such as Thomas Edison
  47. Hugo Gernsback
  48. Tangible Correlation between Actuality and Fiction
  49. His Genre Expanded into Film
  50. An Explanation
  51. Constance Dunlap, Woman Detective
  52. Kennedy Is Not the Protagonist
  53. As with Kennedy
  54. Listen to Recordings
  55. Erasure
  56. Deliberately
  57. Rarely Mentioned
  58. A Prehistory
  59. Prose Bordering on Science Fiction
  60. An Immediate Medium

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