If you thought you’d never have a chance to release your hit single on the wax cylinder think again ... and includes a lousy attempt to build a phonograph to play back the recording.

There are digitizations of wax cylinders, antique phonographs, and other experimental technologies. This is, ironically, an old website dependent on an old digital format: RealMedia. The bad news ...

The first commercial medium for audio recording and playback used a wax cylinder. Similar to the phonograph record that later followed, sound waves were turned into mechanical vibrations that ...

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.

Vasnier performances would have been heard on the wax cylinders installed in coin-operated jukeboxes. Martin’s research found that the Louisiana Phonograph Co. had the most profitable machine in ...