Crossed Wires and Missing Connections
Valdemar Poulsen, The American Telegraphone Company, and the Failure to Commercialize Magnetic Recording
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9626809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Clark (0000-0001-8870-0148, University of Delaware, corresponding author), Henry Nielsen |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-41 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Business History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3117119 |
| OpenAlex | W2324982782 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
The first magnetic recorder, the telegraphone, was invented in 1898 in Denmark. Despite favorable publicity and considerable investment, the telegraphone was a commercial failure. This article uses the theoretical concept of “frames of meaning” to explain that failure, focusing on three factors in particular: Denmark's status as a technologically peripheral country, the telephone orientation of the telegraphone's inventors, and management failures by the firm set up to manufacture the machine
Business · Investment (military · Meaning (existential · Political science · Publicity · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History of Computing Technologies · Law · Marketing · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |