Imagine if your couch or your coffee maker suddenly started talking to you — or perhaps launched into the chorus of “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain.” What would your reaction be? Consider that, ...

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Q: What’s cylindrical, made of wax, and part of one of history’s great showdowns? A: These records in the museum collection with audio recorded 130 years ago. Three wax cylinders recorded in 1889 from ...

The aged wax cylinder in Carl Haber's hands was cracked and spotted with greenish mold, too fragile now to be played with a record needle, as it was intended. With a vintage Edison Standard Phonograph ...

If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger. But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, ...