Edison Fireside Phonograph: Inside the Music

In a previous video filmed in collaboration with the Dalnavert House Museum, I covered the prehistory of sound recording and the technology’s early impact on popular music. In this follow-up, I take a closer look at an Edison “Fireside” Cylinder Phonograph to examine how these devices worked mechanically and how the technology developed over time. 0:00 Introduction 1:35 Early Phonograph History 3:04 The Graphophone 4:34 Early Failures 5:22 First Commercial Phonographs 6:25 Spring Motor Phonographs 8:33 Fireside Phonograph: External Features 12:10 Fireside Phonograph: Setup and Playback 12:48 Fireside Phonograph: Internal Features 14:23 Death of the Cylinder Record 16:00 Outro History of Sound Recording Video:    • The Edison Cylinder Phonograph: How Audio ...   SOURCES Stress, Randall, The Wizard of Menlo Park, Crown Publishers, 2007 https://mus-col.com/en/collection/mmp... https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup... https://www.intertique.com/EdisonPhon... https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/... https://www.intertique.com/Identifica... https://www.loc.gov/collections/ediso... https://www.tnt-audio.com/vintage/edi...