Ladies
and gentlemen, ready your turntables! Get
out your LPs! Place your needles to vinyl...and listen!
On
this date in 1877, Thomas Edison introduced the phonograph.
Thomas
Edison's phonograph cylinder was the first invention that could
record and play back sounds. Note that Edison didn't invent vinyl
records. But his cylinder-based phonographs were a major consumer
item from the 1880s until around 1910, when gramophone discs or
records overtook them. Early discs/records were made of lacquer, by
the way; vinyl records weren't developed until 1948. Still, vinyl
records are clear successors of Edison's invention, and are
accessible to many of us today. For these reasons, somebody (I have
no idea who) has declared today to be Vinyl Record Day.
Celebrate
the day by listening to music on vinyl, if you can!
- Check out this YouTube video of an Edison Home Phonograph.
- Here is a video of a guy who made his own phonograph with the humblest of materials!
- And this video shows how vinyl records are made.
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on this date:
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