The wax cylinder was the first real commercial sound reproducer

Phonograph cylinders are the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound. Commonly known simply as "records" in their era of greatest popularity (c. 1896–1915), these hollow cylindrical objects have an audio recording engraved on the outside surface, which can be reproduced when they are played on a mechanical cylinder phonograph. In the 1910s, the competing disc record system triumphed in the marketplace to become the dominant commercial audio medium.

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Phonograph t: "I want a phonograph in every home. The phonograph was developed as a result of Thomas Edison's work on two other inventions, the telegraph and the telephone. When one would speak into a mouthpiece, the sound vibrations would be indented onto the cylinder by the recording needle in a vertical (or hill and dale) groove pattern. Edison gave a sketch of the machine to his mechanic, John Kruesi, to build, which Kruesi supposedly did within 30 hours.

Vintage Edison Regular Phonograph Wax Cylinder Recordings In Case Edison Standard Model D 2 and 4 Minute Cylinder Phonograph. Life without recorded music is unimaginable, and the Edison cylinder phonograph was the first step into the journey of recorded music of today. The inspiration, theory, and ultimately the success of recording the vibration of sounds translated into grooves onto cylinders still seems like an amazing process. Just like the telephone or electricity, it is interesting and fun to own a beautiful piece of history that was the initial idea that led to the technologies we take for granted today.

Related subjects Engineering. The earliest method of recording and reproducing sound was on phonograph cylinders. Cylinder recordings continued to compete with the growing disc record market into the 1910s, when discs won the commercial battle. In that decade Columbia (which had been making both discs and cylinders) switched exclusively to discs, and Edison started marketing their own disc records. However Edison continued to sell new cylinder records to consumers with cylinder phonograph machines through 1929. Hypothetically in the future some sound might be salvaged from few surviving flattened out early tinfoil records. The earliest soft wax recordings also wore out quite fast, though they have better fidelity than the early rubber discs.

Edison first thought about the phonograph whilst working on two other world-changing 19th century inventions – the telephone and the telegraph. The technology used for the two, he decided, could also be altered to record sound – something which had hitherto never even been considered as a possibility. In 1877, he began to create a machine designed for this purpose with two needles, one for recording the sound, and one for playing it back  . When he spoke the oddly chosen words Mary had a little lamb into the machine, he was awed and astonished to hear them played back to him. Or, perhaps, he was the first of millions of people to dislike the sound of his own voice on recording.

This wax (or phonograph) cylinder was known as a record long before the more familiar record albums and 45 singles were called records or even existed. In fact, music cylinders could be purchased as early as the late 1880s. It's easy to get caught up in the technology that we use on a daily basis. So the future of audio transfer and restoration of both phonograph cylinders and the more widely known 33 ? and 45 RPM records so popular until the late 1980s, will involve technology that most of us haven't heard of yet. Optical audio reconstruction will provide better quality digitizations while better preserving the original recording.