Phonograph cylinders (also referred to as Edison cylinders after their creator Thomas Edison) are the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound.

When one would speak into a mouthpiece, the sound vibrations would be indented onto the cylinder by the recording needle in a vertical (or hill and dale) groove pattern. Edison gave a …

Cylinder recording, earliest form of phonograph record, invented by Thomas A. Edison in 1877. The sound to be recorded was focused by a horn onto a diaphragm, causing it to vibrate; the …

Digital collection of 6,000 cylinder records from 1895-1920s with downloadable and streaming audio held by the Department of Special Collection, University of California, Santa Barbara.

The cylinder phonograph, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877, was the first device capable of recording and playing back sound, marking a revolutionary advancement in audio technology.

These cylinders were played back using a phonograph, with a stylus tracing the groove to reproduce the recorded sound. Early cylinder records were made of soft wax, which allowed …

Mar 22, 2014 · Hagley holds many different forms of recording media from the nineteenth-century through the present. Included in the collections are phonograph cylinders, which were the very …