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Tag Archives: Phonographs
Chocolate Records
Snippets 190. The early 20th Century was a time of great innovation in technology, but not all good ideas are born equal. Sometimes just because you can make something, it doesn’t mean you should. From one of innovation’s blind alleys, … Continue reading
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Revolutionary Tech, 1904
Snippets 186. An early publication concerning audio technology was The Talking Machine News, a monthly magazine for “users and makers of talking machines”; in other words, phonographs, or what we would now term “record players”. By 1904, technology was marching … Continue reading
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The Living Picture
Snippets 184. An early publication concerning audio technology was The Talking Machine News, a monthly magazine for “users and makers of talking machines”; in other words, phonographs, or what we would now term “record players”. We previously looked at a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cinematographs, Phonographs, Talking Machine News, Technology
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Acid Drops, Lemon Drops, Don’t Drops
Snippets 175. In a previous snippet we looked at a quote from the November 1903 issue of The Talking Machine News, a monthly magazine for “users and makers of talking machines”; in other words, phonographs, or what we would now … Continue reading
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The Magic Record
Snippets 173. In 1877 Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. By 1903, use of phonographs to play music had become so popular that it became viable to publish a monthly title “for users and makers of talking machines”, The Talking Machine … Continue reading
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Tagged Goodbye Dolly Gray, Phonographs, Talking Machine News, Technology
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