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This is a study of machines for writing and reading at the end of the nineteenth century in America. Its aim is to explore writing and reading as culturally contingent experiences, and at the same time to broaden our view of the relationship between technology and textuality. At the book s heart is the proposition that technologies of inscription are materialized theories of language. Whether they failed (like Thomas Edison s electric pen) or succeeded (like typewriters), inscriptive technologies of the late nineteenth century were local, often competitive embodiments of the way people experienced writing and reading. Such a perspective cuts through the determinism of recent accounts while arguing for an interdisciplinary method for considering texts and textual production.

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies Other manufacturing technologies

• Full title: Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines
• Subtitle: Representing Technology in the Edison Era
• Author: Lisa Gitelman
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780804732703
• ISBN: 0804732701
• ID: 04716789
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 513 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. October 1999

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