If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger.

Within a few years, entrepreneurs began putting phonograph recordings—mostly on wax cylinders—into ... It’s been a constant since Edison first produced his scratchy recordings on tinfoil.

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.

But some recordings, like those of Thomas Edison’s voice or a song about the sinking of the Titanic, can sell for about $100. While Menashe focused on cylinders, phonographs and 78 rpm records ...

You probably learned in school that Thomas Edison was the first human ... can estimate the speed of the hand-cranked cylinder. The date of the first recovered recording was today, April 9th ...

Edison was 30 when he patented his phonograph in 1877, but he wasn’t the first to record sound ... sounds” and etched grooves into a paper cylinder coated with a black pigment.

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 ...

1900: Phonographs play sound recorded on cardboard cylinders coated with wax. Invented in 1885, they replaced Thomas Edison's foil-wrapped ... 1948: The first LP records, developed at the Columbia ...

There are digitizations of wax cylinders, antique phonographs, and other experimental ... Unlike celluloid cylinders such as Edison's Blue Amberols (which will probably outlive us all), time ...