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.

Country being one of America's most foundational musical art forms, its earliest recording throws many of the genre's ...

“If you own all the music ever recorded in the entire history of the world ... entrepreneurs began putting phonograph recordings—mostly on wax cylinders—into “coin-in-slot” machines ...

If you thought you’d never have a chance to release your hit single on the wax ... the cylinders for them. The story was covered by the BBC and includes a lousy attempt to build a phonograph ...

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 ...

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 ...