Edison Fireside Phonograph: Inside the Music
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In a previous video filmed in collaboration with the Dalnavert House Museum, I covered the prehistory of sound recording and the technology’s early impact on popular music. In this follow-up, I take a closer look at an Edison “Fireside” Cylinder Phonograph to examine how these devices worked mechanically and how the technology developed over time. 0:00 Introduction 1:35 Early Phonograph History 3:04 The Graphophone 4:34 Early Failures 5:22 First Commercial Phonographs 6:25 Spring Motor Phonographs 8:33 Fireside Phonograph: External Features 12:10 Fireside Phonograph: Setup and Playback 12:48 Fireside Phonograph: Internal Features 14:23 Death of the Cylinder Record 16:00 Outro History of Sound Recording Video: https://youtu.be/_2DRLhFviFE SOURCES Stress, Randall, The Wizard of Menlo Park, Crown Publishers, 2007 https://mus-col.com/en/collection/mmp/turntable/phonographs/15185/ https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co117114/edison-fireside-phonograph-c-1909 https://www.intertique.com/EdisonPhonographTutorial.html https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/43809/ https://www.intertique.com/IdentificationGuideIndex.html https://www.loc.gov/collections/edison-company-motion-pictures-and-sound-recordings/articles-and-essays/history-of-edison-sound-recordings/history-of-the-cylinder-phonograph/ https://www.tnt-audio.com/vintage/edison_cylinders2_e.html
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