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Edison demonstrates recorded and reproduced sound

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The tinfoil phonograph records and plays back sound for the first time, cutting a vertical groove into foil wrapped around a cylinder. It is a laboratory demonstration rather than a music industry, and it will be a decade before a format capable of mass duplication exists — but from this point a performance can, in principle, outlive the performance.

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  1. Story
  2. The tinfoil phonograph records and plays back sound for the first time, cutting a vertical groove into foil wrapped around a cylinder. It is a laboratory demonstration rather than a music industry, and it will be a decade before a format capable of mass duplication exists — but from this point a performance can, in principle, outlive the performance.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Sound recording
  5. Edison demonstrates recorded and reproduced sound
  6. Connections
  7. Sound recording
  8. Electrical recording
  9. Race records
  10. Radio diffusion
  11. Field recording
  12. Edison demonstrates recorded and reproduced sound
  13. Berliner patents the gramophone
  14. The first jazz record is made
  15. KDKA broadcasts
  16. Victor and Columbia adopt electrical recording
  17. The Kumasi Trio record in London
  18. Evidence
  19. Edison introduced the phonograph in 1877, ten years before Berliner's gramophone patent, establishing recorded and reproduced sound. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to this Library of Congress timeline; the timeline page was not opened and no entry in it is quoted.
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