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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.
- Title
- From tinfoil to stereo : the acoustic years of the recording industry, 1877-1929 / Walter L. Welch and Leah Brodbeck Stenzel Burt.
- Author
- Welch, Walter L. (Walter Leslie), 1901-1995
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1994.
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- Description
- xii, 212 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Revised edition of: From tin foil to stereo / Oliver Read and Walter Welch. 1976.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-203) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0813013178
- 9780813013176
- LCCN
- 94004823
- OCLC
- 29952159
- SCSB-10208866
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library