Aeon15 天
‘Astonished and somewhat terrified’ – Victorians’ reactions to the phonograph
Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the ...
Wall Street Journal8 年
From Phonographs to Spotify: A Brief History of the Music Industry
From the invention of the phonograph in 1877 to the boom in streaming ... This Wall Street Journal brief history series helps explain the now, by looking back at how we got here.
PBS7 年
The Phonograph
On December 7, 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph at the New York City offices of the nation's leading technical weekly publication, Scientific American. The following report set off ...
Noozhawk1 天
Artist’s Talk Explores the History of NASA’s Golden Record
Dario Robleto, a Texas-based conceptual artist, who fuses and confuses layers of history, culture, and the natural order of the cosmos, will talk about ...
Nature18 天
Talking Photographs
THE article from the Scientific American on the phonograph which is quoted in NATURE, vol. xvii. p. 190, concludes as follows:—“It is already possible, by ingenious optical contrivances ...