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Historical Roots of Music Recording
Historical Roots of Music Recording
It was only 130 years ago when the music recording industry first got its start. In 1878 Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, which recorded sound. Originally planned to relay telegraph messages and for automated speech via the telephone, the phonograph came a year and a half after the telephone.
Technically, Edison had figured out that the needle could prick a paper tape and record a message, which led to a stylus on a tinfoil cylinder which played back the short message he recorded — “Mary had a little lamb.” In reality, the phonograph machine was a tinfoil wrapped cylinder on which sound vibrations could be engraved and played back.
