You might be old enough to remember record platters, but you probably aren’t old enough to remember when records were cylinders. The Edison Blue Amberol records came out in 1912 and were far ...

But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, which was how the original Edison phonograph worked ... similar system that used wax cylinders instead of foil.

To operate his phonograph, Edison wrapped a sheet of tinfoil around the cylinder and set the needle so that it would etch a spiral groove into the foil as the crank was turned. When the foil was ...

In 1981, I started making new phonograph cylinders, just as Thomas Edison had done about a century earlier. When was the wax cylinder invented? In 1877, Edison patented a device that would ...

The designers concocted the Edison bottle, a simple glass beer bottle inscribed with music that can be played like a 19th-century phonograph cylinder. Shine's design team came up with the idea ...

The system invented by Edison involved recording sound in grooves on wax or tin cylinders (the phonograph cylinder), and a small enough cylinder could fit quite neatly inside a doll's hollow torso.