Phonographs play sound recorded on cardboard cylinders coated with wax. Invented in 1885, they replaced Thomas Edison's foil-wrapped metal cylinders. 1901: Emile Berliner invents the Gramophone ...

Some of the naughtiest stories I’ve ever read are found in town histories. I’ll tell you the story.

featuring Nipper the Dog staring into an Edison cylinder phonograph. He asked the painter to substitute it with a gramophone and a year later the company had gained the rights to the picture and ...