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Over 100 years ago Thomas Edison invented his ground-breaking Edison Cylinder Phonograph, the first commercially available machine for recording and reproducing sound.
For the first time ever the folks who owned these machines could listen to their favorite music at any time, and as often as they wished.
In the early 1900s Edison’s Cylinder Phonograph was more or less replaced in the marketplace by the phonograph record players that many of us grew up listening to. Yep, I’m referring to the disc-shaped vinyl records that warped into various shapes if they were accidentally left exposed to the sun.
Believe it or not, there are still quite a few working Edison Cylinder Phonograph machines still around. 100 years is nothing to a device that was well-built and drenched in nostalgia.
The short video below shows one of Edison’s creations playing one of my favorite instrumental tunes, “Listen to the Mockingbird”, as performed by the amazing Jana Jae.
Watch, listen and enjoy this little slice of history.
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