Edison’s first improvement to the phonograph after the original tinfoil record was the development of wax cylinders into which recordings could be incised. These were introduced between 1888 and 1889.

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) invented the tin foil phonograph – a machine that recorded sound by indenting a sheet of tin foil into a groove in a cylinder. A later wax version was ...

Doupe (aka DopeYeah), is a music venue just outside Prague's city center, with intimate stages, a world-class museum of ...

On December 7, 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph at the New York City offices of the nation's leading technical weekly publication, Scientific American. The following report set off ...

Tinfoil-Glenn Sage-collects the earliest sounds recorded by humankind (and has an online store). There are digitizations of ...

Owen bought a painting entitled "His Master's Voice" in 1899 from the artist Francis Barruad, featuring Nipper the Dog staring into an Edison cylinder phonograph. He asked the painter to ...

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1900: Phonographs play sound recorded on cardboard cylinders coated with wax. Invented in 1885, they replaced Thomas Edison's foil-wrapped metal cylinders. 1901: Emile Berliner invents the ...

The voices of seven other crew members who kept diaries while on the Endurance also feature in the documentary ...

Jim Cartwright has given up his home and garage to a collection of CDs, LPs, 45s, 78s, wax cylinders, phonographs, cylinder players, and other audio equipment we didn't even know existed.

Jim Cartwright has given up his home and garage to a collection of CDs, LPs, 45s, 78s, wax cylinders, phonographs, cylinder players, and other audio equipment we didn't even know existed.