Sound machines
Edison cylinder
Thomas Alva Edison and Emile Berliner developed competing technologies for the playing of recorded sound. Edison’s method relied on the use of cylinders to be played on his phonograph (from the Greek words for “sound” and “writing”). Cylinders had one significant disadvantage compared with the discs developed by Berliner.
Each cylinder had to be individually produced, so the artist would perform a song for the first cylinder, then start again and perform a second time for the second cylinder, and so on. Return to home page
