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ART BIBLIOGRAPHY
All illustrations by Kevin Christy
fm1.1 Bombs provided by Dave Hogan. Photograph by Michael Waring
fm1.2 Korg VC-10 Vocoder provided by Jason Merenda. Photograph by Michael Waring
AXIS OF EAVESDROPPERS
fm.1 Courtesy National Archives, SIGSALY, Record Group 111/ via Mahlon Doyle
fm.2 Courtesy NSA
fm.3 Cutmaster DC (Courtesy Chris LaSalle and Dave Funkenklein); Copyright 1983, Capitol Records; Copyright 1982, Tears of Fire Records; Afrika Bambaataa (Photo by Paul Natkin/WireImage)
fm.7 Courtesy National Archives, SIGSALY, Record Group 111/ via Mahlon Doyle
NEARLY ENOUGH LIKE THAT WHICH GAVE THEM BIRTH
1.1 Courtesy AT&T Archives and History Center
1.2 Courtesy AT&T Archives and History Center
1.3 Courtesy AT&T Archives and History Center
1.4 Courtesy AT&T Archives and History Center
1.5 Courtesy AT&T Archives and History Center; color images by David Black with permission of AT&T Shannon Labs.
1.6 Photograph by David Black
1.7 Courtesy AT&T Archives and History Center
1.8 Photograph by David Black
1.9 Courtesy of the Audio Engineering Society
1.10 Courtesy AT&T Archives and History Center
1.11 Photography by Michael Waring (Courtesy Ralph Miller)
1.12 Photography by Michael Waring (Courtesy Ralph Miller)
1.13 Courtesy Patrick Feaster (Euphonia)
1.14 Copyright 1951, Ace Books
1.15 Courtesy AT&T Archives and History Center
INDESTRUCTIBLE SPEECH
2.1 Photograph by Michael Waring (Courtesy Ralph Miller)
2.2 Courtesy AT&T Archives and History Center
2.3 Courtesy National Archives, SIGSALY, Record Group 111/via Mahlon Doyle
2.4 Photograph by Dan Winters
2.5 Alan Turing (By kind permission of the Provost and Fellows, King’s College, Cambridge)
2.6 Courtesy National Archives, SIGSALY, Record Group 111/via Mahlon Doyle
2.7 Photograph by David Black
2.8 Courtesy National Archives, SIGSALY, Record Group 111/via Mahlon Doyle
2.9 Courtesy National Archives, SIGSALY, Record Group 111/ via Mahlon Doyle
2.10 Courtesy Scientific American
2.11 Winston Churchill © Bettmann/CORBIS
2.12 Fitzroy Maclean (AP Photo/files)
2.13 Courtesy National Archives, SIGSALY, Record Group 111/via Mahlon Doyle
2.14 Courtesy Don Mehl and NSA
2.15 Courtesy National Archives, SIGSALY, Record Group 111/ via Mahlon Doyle
2.16 Photography by David Black
2.17 Courtesy National Archives, SIGSALY, Record Group 111/ via Mahlon Doyle
VOCODER KOMMISSAR
3.1 Joseph Stalin (AP Photo)
3.2 Alexander Solzhenitsyn © Nobelstiftelsen
3.3 Photograph by Michael Waring
AS IT IS, ON MARS
4.1 Copyright 1950, Bantam Books
4.2 Courtesy BBC
4.3 Courtesy EMS
COLOR OUT OF SPACE
5.1 Courtesy Pandisc Music Corp. Copyright 1985 Pandisc Music Corp
5.2 Photograph by Michael Waring (Courtesy Michael Jonzun)
5.3 Courtesy Michael Jonzun
5.4 Copyright 1982, Boston International
5.5 Copyright 1988, Pandisc Music Corp.
5.6 Courtesy Michael Jonzun
5.7 Courtesy Bill Sebastian
5.8 Courtesy Michael Jonzun
5.9 Copyright 1980, Emergency Records
5.10 Copyright 1985, Critique Records; Copyright 1983, Tommy Boy Records
5.11 Courtesy Tommy Boy Records
5.12 Courtesy Michael Jonzun and Dennis Ackerman
5.13 Copyright 1974, Pyramid Books
5.14 Courtesy Tommy Boy Records (Hua Hsu collection)
5.15 Courtesy Alan Nahigian
5.16 Photography by David Black
5.17 Photograph by David Black
5.18 Photography by David Black
5.18 Photograph by David Black
5.19 Photography by David Black
5.20 Photograph by David Black
THE SACRED THUNDER CROAK
6.1 Courtesy AT&T Archives and History Center
6.2 Reproduced, with permission, from Transactions of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, “New Artificial Larynx,” Volume 63, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 1959
6.3 Courtesy Audio Engineering Society
6.4 Image courtesy the Ralph Rinzle
r Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution
6.5 Reprinted with permission from F.A. Firestone “An Artificial Larynx for Speaking and Choral Singing for One Person.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. January, 1940, pp. 357–361. Copyright The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1940, Acoustical Society of America
6.6 Copyright 1976, East Anglican Productions
6.7 Copyright 1941, Capitol Records
6.8 Reprinted with permission from F.A. Firestone “An Artificial Larynx for Speaking and Choral Singing for One Person.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. January, 1940, pp. 357–361. Copyright The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1940, Acoustical Society of America
6.9 Photograph by Paul Eagle
6.10 Copyright 1985, Warner Bros.
6.11 Copyright 1984, MCA Copyright 1983, Capitol Records
6.13 Copyright 1984, Slaughter Sound Music, High Altitude Records
6.14 Courtesy Vincent Calloway
6.15 Photograph by Martess Miller
INTERDICTION
7.1 Courtesy NSA
7.2 Photograph by NBCU Photo Bank via AP Images
7.3 Courtesy AT&T Archives and History Center
7.4 Courtesy Frank Gentges and Dave Coulter
7.5 Courtesy Frank Gentges and Dave Coulter
7.6 Courtesy Archives, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
7.7 Courtesy Wendy Carlos
7.8 Courtesy AT&T Archives and History Center
7.9 Copyright 1967, Odyssey Records (Courtesy Patrick James Longo)
7.10 Photography by Michael Waring
7.11 Courtesy of Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures by Christiane Kubrick (Little, Brown)
7.12 Photography by David Black
VIETNAM, VERBOT AND CLEAR
8.1 Courtesy AT&T Archives and History Center
8.2 Photograph by David Black
8.3 Photography by David Black
8.4 Richard Nixon Bettmann/CORBIS
8.5 Copyright 1963, Lancer Books
8.6 Copyright 1983, Fantasy Records (Courtesy Dave Hogan)
8.7 Copyright, 1982, Deep Space Records
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