If you thought you’d never have a chance to release your hit single on the wax cylinder think again ... and includes a lousy attempt to build a phonograph to play back the recording.

The first commercial medium for audio recording and playback used a wax cylinder. Similar to the phonograph record that later followed, sound waves were turned into mechanical vibrations that ...

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) invented the tin foil phonograph – a machine that recorded sound by indenting a sheet of tin foil into a groove in a cylinder. A later wax version was ...

Jim Cartwright has given up his home and garage to a collection of CDs, LPs, 45s, 78s, wax cylinders, phonographs, cylinder players, and other audio equipment we didn't even know existed.

1900: Phonographs play sound recorded on cardboard cylinders coated with wax. Invented in 1885, they replaced Thomas Edison's foil-wrapped metal cylinders. 1901: Emile Berliner invents the ...

Jim Cartwright has given up his home and garage to a collection of CDs, LPs, 45s, 78s, wax cylinders, phonographs, cylinder players, and other audio equipment we didn't even know existed.