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.

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 ...

There are digitizations of wax cylinders, antique phonographs ... recordings – generally brown wax cylinders from 1888 through the early 1900's. Unlike celluloid cylinders such as Edison's ...

You probably learned in school that Thomas Edison ... recordings would have a tuning fork sound which allows modern playback since the known signal can estimate the speed of the hand-cranked cylinder.

But Edison’s early phonograph both recorded and ... disc which was easier to duplicate than a wax cylinder. Berliner’s flat disc records had room for a label identifying the recording by ...

But some recordings, like those of Thomas Edison’s voice or a song about the sinking of the Titanic, can sell for about $100. While Menashe focused on cylinders, phonographs and 78 rpm records ...

Edison’s first improvement to the phonograph after the original tinfoil record was the development of wax cylinders into which recordings could be incised. These were introduced between 1888 and 1889.

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) invented the tin foil phonograph ... foil into a groove in a cylinder. A later wax version was the version on which the recordings we know today ...