IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a business dictation machine ...

Boomboxes and cars with trunk speakers have been ways to express identity with plenty of volume. For those who cultivated them, it was music to their ears. As for others, well, one man's music is ...

It is a woman’s voice, but it sounds as though it comes drifting toward us across some vast and unbridgeable distance. It is all but drowned out by the snaps and the crackles and pops of what is by ...

Graphophone, recorded in October 1881. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy. I am a graphophone and my mother was a phonograph." Voice of Alexander ...

15 September 1888: The Edison ‘Phonograph’ and the Tainter ‘Graphophone’ are rival machines by which the sounds of human voice can be recorded and reproduced The Edison "Phonograph" and the Tainter ...

Dear John: I have a stock certificate for 29 shares of Columbia Graphophone Manufacturing Co. from 1920, which has the words “worthless security” stamped on the front. My belief is that there is a ...

Syracuse University had a very odd tradition back in the 19 th Century. On Class Day, as part of the school's week-long commencement activities, held then in June, members of the senior class would ...

Depression teaches humility, softens pride. For many years the two great talking machine companies of the world have wanted to merge, time & again they have refused to make minor concessions. But last ...