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 ...

From 1902 to 1905, Polish anthropologist [Bronislow Pilsudski] did a series of recordings in Hokkaido japan on wax cylinders. Researchers at the university of Hokkaido have been working on ways to ...

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 ...

Morgan-Ellis, left, and students creating a wax cylinder recording that will be preserved in the MTSU archive. A rare opportunity was creating a wax cylinder recording that will be preserved in the ...

If you thought you’d never have a chance to release your hit single on the wax cylinder think again. A band obsessed with the Victorian era did just that, having a DIY’er produce the cylinders ...

1900: Phonographs play sound recorded on cardboard cylinders coated with wax. Invented in 1885, they replaced Thomas Edison's foil-wrapped metal cylinders. 1901: Emile Berliner invents the ...

Carolina Tavares Connector Staff From the wax cylinders of the 1800s to the popularity of CDs in the 90s and 2000s, the way ...

Politically active group of women (grannies) who appear (in costume) at political rallies and protests and sing songs with highly-charged political lyrics, set to well known tunes. Collection is ...

A wax cylinder containing the oldest recorded country song was discovered in Pennsylvania. The track 'Thompson's Old Gray Mule' was recorded in 1891 and sung by Louis Vasnier, a black man from ...

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 ...