From tinfoil to stereo : the acoustic years of the recording industry, 1877-1929 /

From tinfoil to stereo : the acoustic years of the recording industry, 1877-1929 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Welch, Walter L. (Walter Leslie), 1901-1995
Imprint:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1994.
Description:	xii, 212 p., [30] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Phonograph -- History. Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- History. Phonograph. Sound -- Recording and reproducing. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1763861

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Other uniform titles:	Burt, Leah Brodbeck Stenzel Read, Oliver. From tin foil to stereo.
ISBN:	0813013178 (acid-free paper)
Notes:	Rev. ed. of: From tin foil to stereo / Oliver Read and Walter Welch. 1976. Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-203) and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / George L. Frow
1. Before the Phonograph
2. The Edison Tinfoil Phonograph
3. The North American Phonograph Company and the Bell-Tainter Graphophone
4. The Local Phonograph Companies
5. The Edison Talking-Doll Phonograph
6. The New Graphophone
7. The Bettini Story
8. The Concert Cylinders
9. The Celluloid Cylinder and Molding Patents
10. The Coin-Slot Phonograph Industry
11. Advent of the Discs
12. The International Situation
13. Discs versus Cylinders
14. Internal-Horn Talking Machines and the Phonograph
15. The Edison Diamond Disc Phonograph
16. Tone-Test Reverberations and the Vertical-Cut Bandwagon
17. Motion Pictures and Sound Recording.