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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter L Welch; Leah Brodbeck Stenzel Burt; Oliver Read |
| ISBN: | 0813013178 9780813013176 |
| OCLC Number: | 29952159 |
| Notes: | Rev. ed. of: From tin foil to stereo / Oliver Read and Walter Welch. 1976. |
| Description: | xii, 212 p., [30] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Walter L. Welch and Leah Brodbeck Stenzel Burt. |
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