Volume 13, No. 1
November 2000
Urban Legends & the Challenges of Standardization
An Artificial Line, or Technology as Spectrology
Technology as Spectrology:
Governing Circuit Profit and Surplus
What is an Artificial Line Circuit?
Paul C. Hoernel featured this illustration of two Bell Lab employees, W. G. Breivogel and C. B. Northrup, setting up an artificial line of telephony. As he put it, “by proper connections of the equipment a great variety of actual lines may be simulated” (1925, p. 57).