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.

Edison envisioned a welter of uses ... Within a few years, entrepreneurs began putting phonograph recordings—mostly on wax cylinders—into “coin-in-slot” machines on city streets, where ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The first commercial medium for audio recording and playback used a wax cylinder. Similar to the phonograph record that ... in the late 1880s by Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, the ...

But Edison’s early phonograph both recorded and reproduced ... Eventually, more durable wax cylinders replaced the tinfoil. By the late 1800s, music recordings were sold in cylindrical ...