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From tinfoil to stereo : the acoustic years of the recording industry, 1877-1929 / Walter L. Welch and Leah Brodbeck Stenzel Burt. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Welch, Walter L. (Walter Leslie), 1901-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Phonograph--History.
- Phonograph.
- Sound--Recording and reproducing--History.
- Sound.
- Sound--History--Recording and reproducing.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 212 p., [30] p. of plates ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Before the phonograph
- The Edison tinfoil phonograph
- The North American Phonograph Company and the Bell-Tainter graphophone
- The local phonograph companies
- The Edison talking-doll phonograph
- The new graphophone
- The Bettini story
- The concert cylinders
- The celluloid cylinder and molding patents
- The coin-slot phonograph industry
- Advent of the discs
- The international situation
- Discs versus cylinders
- Internal-horn talking machines and the phonograph
- The Edison diamond disc phonograph.
- Tone-test reverberations and the vertical-cut bandwagon
- Motion pictures and sound recordings.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: From tin foil to stereo / Oliver Read and Walter Welch. 1976.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-203) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-2411-0
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