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	Phonograph cylinder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Around 1900 cylinders on average are indeed of notably higher audio quality than contemporary discs, but as disc makers improved their technology by 1910 the fidelity differences between better discs and cylinders became minimal.
		Cylinder phonographs also usually used a worm gear to move the stylus in synchronization with the grooves of the recording, whereas most disc machines relied on the grooves to pull the stylus along.
		Cylinder phonograph technology continued to be used for dictaphone recordings for office use into the early 1950s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phonograph_cylinder (1909 words)

	PHONOGRAPH - LoveToKnow Article on PHONOGRAPH
		The tinfoil phonograph, however, was an imperfect instrument, both as regards the medium on which the imprints were taken (tinfoil) and the general mechanism of the instrument.
		In a form of instrument called the 200-thread machine motion of the drum bearing the cylinder was taken off a screw the thread of which was 50 to the inch, and by a system of gearing the grooves on the cylinder were 200 to the inch, or 21/8-1 of an inch apart.
		He obtained photographs of the curves on the wax cylinder, a beam of light reflected from a small mirror attached to the vibrating disk of the phonograph being allowed to fall on a sensitive plate while the phonograph was slowly travelling.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PH/PHONOGRAPH.htm (3848 words)

	"Thomas Alva Edison's invention of the Cylinder Phonograph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He later named it a 'phonograph' and although the market for cylinder recordings peaked in 1913, Edison continued to produce and distribute cylinders until the demise of the Edison Company in 1929.
		Cylinder recordings, the very first commercially produced sound recordings, provide us with a view of musical and popular culture in the decades around the turn of the 20th century..
		The heydey of the cylinder record was over 90 years ago (early 1900's) and, for the most part, have not been re-released commercially in a modern medium.
	www.enter.net /~kiddycar/edisoncylinder.html (375 words)

	Edison, Phonograph Collection, Record, Cylinder, Disc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But instead of using a cylinder, it had a flat recording disc and a stylus which cut a spiral groove from side to side (lateral cut recording),while in the cylinder, the stylus moved up and down in vertical cut recording (hill-and-dale).
		The phonograph is used to replay sounds that are recorded on a disc or cylinder.
		Edison produced the phonograph to be used as a dictating device, but soon it turned into one of the most popular and important machines that were used for sound reproduction in the 1900s.
	www.phonographinfo.com (3627 words)

	Edison:The History of the Edison Cylinder Phonograph
		Edison increased the entertainment offerings on his cylinders, which by 1892 were made of a wax known among collectors today as "brown wax." Although called by this name, the cylinders could range in color from off-white to light tan to dark brown.
		The Edison Concert Phonograph, which had a louder sound and a larger cylinder measuring 4.25" long and 5" in diameter, was introduced in 1899, retailing for $125 and the large cylinders for $4.
		The finer sound of the cylinder was partly due to the fact that a cylinder had constant surface speed from beginning to end in contrast to the inner groove distortion that occurred on discs when the surface speed slowed down.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/edhtml/edcyldr.html (2285 words)

	Cylinder Record History
		To make a record artist sang into the horn of a Phonograph, the sound waves were concentrated onto a glass diaphragm, which viabrated a jeweled cutter, that engraved a hill and dale groove into the surface of the record.
		The masters were improved, recorders improved, and so a "perfect" master was made, this original cylinder was placed in a bell jar, and gold was vaporized onto it, and made the record conductive.
		The machines are Class M electrical phonographs (note the batteries on the floor) You can see the stacks of blanks to the side of the recording machines, for replenishing for the next set of records.
	members.tripod.com /edison_1/id14.html (1370 words)

	Phonograph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thomas Alva Edison announced his invention of the first phonograph, a device for recording and replaying sound, on November 21, 1877 and he demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29 (he patented it on February 19, 1878).
		From the mid 1890s until the late 1910s both phonograph cylinder and disc recordings and machines to play them on were widely mass marketed and sold.
		Berliner's lateral disc record was the ancestor of the 78rpm, 45rpm, Long Play, and all other analogue disc records popular for use in sound recording through the 20th century.
	knowallabout.com /p/ph/phonograph.html (840 words)

	Phonographs
		For the next 50 years, the phonograph and the cylinder improved; in the words of technology today, they were upgraded.
		A cylinder is “a geometric form on which entertainment recordings were made.” If you take a look at “The Evolution of Cylinders,” located on the table, you will see how cylinders were made in 1877 and how they progressed up to 1912.
		Many of the cylinders on the table are recordings of an all-time favorite performer from the early 1900s.
	www.greencastlemuseum.org /Special_Exhibits/phonographs.htm (1103 words)

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		The first phonograph was very imperfect but thanks to improvements of T. Edison and other known scientists of that time it became possible to apply the phonograph in different fields of science, art and in household.
		The phonograph was spread quickly all over the world and used for sound recording and reproduction roughly till 1930 and at last was displaced by the gramophone and gramophone records.
		Characteristic damages of Edison phonograph cylinders are mechanical, physical-chemical, induced by complex, irreversible processes of chemical aging of wax cylinders.
	www.evarussia.ru /upload/doklad/dokladEn_307.doc (2470 words)

	Wax Cylinder Phonograph - The Edison Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was not until Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter demonstrated a wax-record cylinder phonograph in the mid-1880s that Edison again turned his attention to sound recording.
		Between 1887 and 1889, Edison and his laboratory staff developed improved phonographs and wax cylinders that were technically superior to the Bell-Tainter graphophone.
		The phonograph began to find new uses in the 1890s as agents marketing the dictating phonograph installed coin slots and set up phonograph parlors where customers could listen to a recording for a nickel.
	edison.rutgers.edu /cylinder.htm (223 words)

	Cylinder Machines
		The dimensions of the phonograph with the lid on are 16 3/8" long, 9" wide, and 11 3/4" tall.
		Completely new from A to Z, this cylinder phonograph is sold for $500.00 to any collector who would like to add a new machine to his collection since the last cylinder phonograph last made, the Edison Amberola 80 issued in 1928.
		The phonograph was given a clean bill of health by the technicians at Victrola Repair Service, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where it was purchased by this owner several years ago.
	www.worldofgramophones.com /cylindermachines.html (602 words)

	Boyhood Days in Old Metuchen - by David Trumbull Marshall
		This cylinder was mounted horizontally on an axis and provided with a crank by means of which it might be turned by hand.
		When the crank of the cylinder was turned and words were spoken against the diaphragm of the transmitter, the needle made dents in the tin foil.
		Edison say that the phonograph was the only machine he ever made which worked the first time he tried it, and that he could hardly believe the evidence of his own senses when the thing actually spoke.
	www.jhalpin.com /metuchen/history/boy34.htm (872 words)

	Cylinders: A Beginner's Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Of course, cylinders were made before 1895, but these are generally in archives and you will not get many chances to hear one except on compact discs.
		Cylinders are so interesting that I wish I could refer readers to a definitive book on the subject, but books about cylinders are out of print.
		You'll find the catalog numbers on the rim of cylinders, but at the factory, numbers were also written (by hand in pencil) on the inside of most cylinders--that is, for the pink ones, which are white inside, where the fingers go.
	www.garlic.com /~tgracyk/cylinders.htm (2359 words)

	Bill Clark's Phonograph Cylinder Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As well as the cylinder being announced, often a paper slip was included with the cylinder, some examples are shown above.
		The early cylinders were recorded individually directly onto brown wax and appeared in various sizes.
		As the grooves in the cylinder were twice as fine as before, special attachments were available to convert your old phonograph to play the new records.
	www.btinternet.com /~bill78/cylinder.htm (319 words)

	Archeophone Universal Cylinder Phonograph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ability to accurately set the rotational speed of the cylinder is absolutely critical during cylinder play-back.
		One of the biggest problems in designing a universal cylinder phonograph is having to cope with different groove pitches.
		It is the finest cylinder phonograph ever constructed, making it the ideal machine for sound archives, institutions, transfer engineers and advanced collectors.
	www.78rpm.com /pages/rescat/audio/arch.htm (734 words)

	Edison Cylinder Phonograph from 1877 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Since the first VideoDiscs were grooved, and CED represents the final chapter in grooved mass media, it's fitting to look back to the origin of this type of media.
		This is Thomas Edison's tin foil cylinder phonograph from 1877.
		The Edison cylinder is similar to the CED in using hill-and-dale recording, i.e.
	www.cedmagic.com /history/edison-cylinder.html (89 words)

	Edison Phonograph Museum
		This 24 cylinders jukebox is certainly the most glamorous of all the cylinder phonographs ever made.
		The wax cylinders, with a too big diameter compared to their small length, used to broke, due to the dilatation of the cylinder mandrel.
		The cylinders is moving in front of the fixed reproducer.
	www.phono.org /beaupre-en.html (578 words)

	Edison Phonology - Home Page
		The phonographs and records in my collection date back to the first three decades of the 20th Century, in what was known as the "Acoustical Era" of sound recording.
		On the phonograph, sound was reproduced purely by the mechanical action of a jewel-tipped stylus bouncing in the record groove.
		Some concerts were put on for free by agents of the phonograph manufacturers for the benefit of a local dealer to generate interest in the machines and spur sales.
	www.engineeringexpert.net /edphono.htm (720 words)

	The Edison Shop - Cylinder Phonograph Reproducers
		The short coming to this reproducer was that to change from a 2-minute record to a 4-minute record, the reproducer had to be removed from the phonograph so that the central part of the weight could be rotated to the correct position.
		The Amberola I was the first Edison phonograph since the Tinfoil model to have the record move laterally under the reproducer as opposed to having the reproducer move.
		An article on cylinder reproducers for use on Edison Phonographs would not be complete without commenting on some of the modern devises which have been manufactured for facilitating electrical playback of cylinder records.
	www.edisonshop.com /reproducers/ducer.html (2697 words)

	Nipperhead - Glossary
		A strip of leather used most often in a cylinder phonograph to transfer the drive power of the motor to a pulley connected to the mandrel
		On early cylinder phonographs, the mandrel was supported by bearings on both sides, and a moveable gate was required to allow changing of the record.
		In a disc phonograph, the turntable is the platter that holds the disc record, and rotates it for play under the reproducer
	www.nipperhead.com /glossf2.htm (542 words)

	Edison Cylinder Machines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cylinders are played during "listening sessions" I have with other collectors, but I prefer the sound of a Victrola or Edison Diamond Disc machine.
		Finding brown wax cylinders of the 1890s that have not been spoiled by mold is difficult.
		Some people are surprised when they learn that cylinders came in either a two or four minute format and that each format requires the right equipment.
	www.garlic.com /~tgracyk/cylindermachine.htm (1005 words)

	Rose and Graceys 2001-2006 Sold Edisons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A detailed description and history of the Edison Standard Model D is available on pages 123-127 of the current "Edison Cylinder Phonograph Companion" book.
		A detailed description and history of the Edison Home Model D is available on pages 105 to 107 of the current "Edison Cylinder Phonograph Companion" book.
		A detailed description and history of the Edison GEM Model A is available on pages 138 to 141 of the current "Edison Cylinder Phonograph Companion" book.
	www.talkingmachines.com /sold01ed.html (787 words)

	TREASURES FROM THE BELHAVEN MUSEUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		However, before compact discs, eight-track cartridges, or even phonograph records came along, people around the turn of the century listened to the "compact cylinder" for their musical pleasure.
		The cylinder sat on its side like a piece of metal in a lathe, and was rotated by a clockwork mechanism.
		It was this commercial music application that helped the phonograph record supplant the phonograph cylinder, simply because flat records could be mass-produced by stamping, but the cylinders needed to be cut individually.
	www.beaufort-county.com /Belhaven/museum/Belhaven3.htm (283 words)

	History of Recorded Sound (Antique Phonograph Books Edison)
		A phonograph which could record and reproduce was finally invented in 1877 by someone who wasn't looking for it at all.
		Because each phonograph was also a recorder, a talented amateur could easily make records at home, and some of the first problems with censorship arose when enterprising showmen experimented with risque cylinders.
		The prices of the phonographs and records began to drop in the mid-nineties as the anticipated market changed, and the spring motor was substituted for the earlier electric and treadle versions.
	members.aol.com /allenamet/BirthRec.htm (2801 words)

	Welcome To Mechantiques
		I think this is the first cylinder music box table we have had, separate from a music box, in 3-4 years or more.
		Has six 6” cylinders stored in a section in the bottom of the case with a flip down door, each cylinder is marked with a paper strip with three tune titles on it (although the snail has six points).
		Cylinder is 15” x 2 ¼” with 9/84/6 teeth, one broken, some surface rust.
	www.mechantiques.com /current_list.htm (3269 words)

	Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry: The Gramophone
		Since the phonograph did not succeed as a dictating device, Edison's company began to market pre-recorded wax cylinders of popular music that could be played on the phonograph in the office or home or even on coin-in-slot machines in arcades, saloons, and elsewhere.
		Both sides made such recordings with the result that a phonograph cylinder could be played on the graphophone and vice-versa.
		Because cylinders employed a vertical, or hill-and-dale, cut their machines had to have a feed screw attachment in order to keep the reproducer and stylus from jumping out of the grooves and this feed screw easily came out of adjustment.
	frontiers.loc.gov /ammem/berlhtml/berlgramo.html (3319 words)

	Cylinder Recordings
		In 1877, he created a way to record sound on tinfoil cylinders by using two needles, one for recording and one for playback.
		Cylinder records and other recordings made throughout the twentieth century are valuable primary resources.For the first time in political history, candidates in the 1908 presidential election (William Howard Taft, Republican and William Jennings Bryan, Democrat) recorded speeches that were sold to the public.
		The cylinders were played on an Edison Standard Phonograph and recorded using a Macintosh iBook with iMovie.
	www.cyberbee.com /edison/cylinder.html (949 words)

	Edison Invents the Phonograph
		Thomas Edison created many inventions, but his favorite was the phonograph.
		While working on improvements to the telegraph and the telephone, Edison figured out a way to record sound on tinfoil-coated cylinders.
		When Edison spoke into the mouthpiece, the sound vibrations of his voice would be indented onto the cylinder by the recording needle.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/scientists/edison/phonograph_1 (92 words)

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