Phonograph cylinder

The earliest method of recording and reproducing sound was on phonograph cylinders. Commonly known simply as "records" in their era of greatest popularity (c. 1888 - 1915), these cylinder shaped objects had an audio recording engraved on the outside surface which could be reproduced when the cylinder was played on a mechanical phonograph. The competing disc-shaped gramophone record system triumphed in the market place to become the domininent commercial audio medium in the 1910s, and commercial mass production of phonograph cylinders ended in 1929.

References

• From Tin Foil to Stereo: Evolution of the Phonograph by Oliver Read and Walter L. Welch, Howard W. Sams & Co. In,c Indianapolis, Indiana, 1976. ISPN 0-672-21206
• The Edison Cylinder Phonographs 1877 - 1929 by George L. Frow and Albert F. Sefl, George F. Frow, Sevenoaks, Kent, 1978. ISBN 0 9595462 3 2
• {{Journal reference issue | Author=Fadeyev, V., and C. Haber | Title=Reconstruction of mechanically recorded sound by image processing | Journal=Journal of the Audio Engineering Society | Volume=51 | Issue=December | Year=2003 | Pages=1172}}