The illustrated history of phonographs

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by Daniel Marty

For centuries, man imagined being able to record and replay at will voices, music, sounds. But it was not until the nineteenth century that this dream became a reality. The principle of the phonograph was descriped clearly, if only in theory, by Charles Cross in 1877, and was realised practically in that same year, but on the other side of the Atlantic, by Thomas Edison

Daniel Marty, whose collection comprises more than 300 phonographs and gramophones, has produced a lively and technically interesting text which will appeal to collectors as well as those interested in sound recording and its colourful beginnings.