| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era. By Lisa Gitelman. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xiv, 282 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8047-3270-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8047-3872-6.)

Any new book about the phonograph and its related technologies is to be welcomed because this is an area right along the fault lines of technology and culture, where scholars have rich sources of information about the cultural impact of new machines. Lisa Gitelman's book is subtitled "Representing Technology in the Edison Era," and by this she means not just the representation of technologies but also the representations and inscriptions generated by machines such as the typewriter and the phonograph. This book investigates the new inscriptive forms produced by those machines and by systems of shorthand introduced at roughly the same time. . . .

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