Found in the Machine: Forgotten Tech History
Daina Bouquin
5.0from 18 ratings
- 23
- Episodes
- 7
- Transcribed
- 18
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2026
- First episode
About Found in the Machine: Forgotten Tech History
Found in the Machine is a narrative podcast about the forgotten people, decisions, and accidents that quietly shaped the digital world. If you've ever wondered who actually made the technology you use every day, and why you've never heard their name before, you'll feel at home here. This show is for the curious, not the credentialed. You don't need a technical background to follow along. You just need to be the kind of person who pulls on threads. New episodes unearth human stories from computing history every other week.
- Publisher
- Daina Bouquin
- Category
- education · history · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Feb 2026
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
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7 of 23 episodes have a transcript.
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Page Turner: Mary Jameson and the Optophone
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15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Inflection: The Voder, Voderettes, and Voice
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Page Turner: Mary Jameson and the Optophone
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] He wants the company to recognize her vital work with proper compensation and a formal place. Barron Stroud pays Mary for individual demonstrations, but never gives her regular employment. Still, she keeps working. And in 1921, Mary sits down to read a novel. It is The Warden by Anthony Trollope. Published in 1855, it tells the story of a kindly clergyman caught in a dispute over money at a charitable institution. Mary places the book on the optophone. She finds the first line and she begins to read. She no longer labors over individual sounds. Familiar patterns begin to come together. and she starts to notice something. […]
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