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When you think of an antique record player do you think of this?

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Truly an antique! But wait, this is not the first recorded sound device.

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Edison invented the phonograph in 1877. The original recorded sounds were put onto cylinders. Bell would take the design and improve on it immediately after. The first cylinders were wax covered cardboard. Around 1900, they were upgraded to celluloid, a type of very early plastic. These were orders of magnitude more durable then the wax pressings that would wear out in as few as a dozen plays. Durable enough in fact you can still find them for sale in working condition over a century later.

The flat disc phonograph was invented by a German, taking the same principle as the cylinder and turning the circular recordings into a spiral that wound outward instead of the left to right the cylinders had.

I wanted to post this as I had the pleasure of listening to a fully functional early 1900's player this last weekend at a local flea market of all places. It cranked right up and played wonderfully. Surprisingly loud for what I was expecting as well, easily could hear it from 30 feet away.
You can find cylinders for sale on ebay on a regular basis. They truly were a durable media, despite modern critics saying otherwise. As if our cassettes will play as nicely in 100+ years!
 
Detective D said:
When you think of an antique record player do you think of this?

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Truly an antique! But wait, this is not the first recorded sound device.

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Edison invented the phonograph in 1877. The original recorded sounds were put onto cylinders. Bell would take the design and improve on it immediately after. The first cylinders were wax covered cardboard. Around 1900, they were upgraded to celluloid, a type of very early plastic. These were orders of magnitude more durable then the wax pressings that would wear out in as few as a dozen plays. Durable enough in fact you can still find them for sale in working condition over a century later.

The flat disc phonograph was invented by a German, taking the same principle as the cylinder and turning the circular recordings into a spiral that wound outward instead of the left to right the cylinders had.

I wanted to post this as I had the pleasure of listening to a fully functional early 1900's player this last weekend at a local flea market of all places. It cranked right up and played wonderfully. Surprisingly loud for what I was expecting as well, easily could hear it from 30 feet away.
You can find cylinders for sale on ebay on a regular basis. They truly were a durable media, despite modern critics saying otherwise. As if our cassettes will play as nicely in 100+ years!
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That image....but also the dog sitting next to it listening intently.

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THAT is friggin adorable.
Dog lovers are easily amused by their pets.
 
Paul Stanley (yes THAT Paul Stanley) was born with only one ear.
He had a hearing aid implanted and reconstructive surgery (add-an-earectomy) in 1982, well after the band had reached success.
 
Wire recording, also known as magnetic wire recording, was the first magnetic recording technology, an analog type of audio storage. It recorded sound signals on a thin steel wire using varying levels of magnetization.[1][2] The first crude magnetic recorder was invented in 1898 by Valdemar Poulsen. The first magnetic recorder to be made commercially available anywhere was the Telegraphone, manufactured by the American Telegraphone Company, Springfield, Massachusetts in 1903.

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A neighbor across the street from me had an ancient wire recorder in the 1960's. He had some other ancient recording stuff like the waxed drum.
 
DeltaV said:
Wire recording, also known as magnetic wire recording, was the first magnetic recording technology, an analog type of audio storage. It recorded sound signals on a thin steel wire using varying levels of magnetization.[1][2] The first crude magnetic recorder was invented in 1898 by Valdemar Poulsen. The first magnetic recorder to be made commercially available anywhere was the Telegraphone, manufactured by the American Telegraphone Company, Springfield, Massachusetts in 1903.

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A neighbor across the street from me had an ancient wire recorder in the 1960's. He had some other ancient recording stuff like the waxed drum.
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Your neighbor's wire recorder may have been ancient, but one of the more popular types, the Minofon P55 was very well known in the 1950s and 60s. The model 240 was still in production until around 1962.
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Popular in business as a dictation machine, the battery powered device was down to 1 1/2 pounds by then. The L model held a four hour cartridge, considered quite a feat at that time.
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If anyone is a Woody Guthrie fan, his 1949 live album was originally recorded on wire.
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I've got one for you.... Milton Hershey, founder of dog-poop-tasting plastic rubbish passed off as "Hershey's chocolate" was booked with his wife, first class to return to the States by ship, from a business trip in Europe.

Business matters changed his plans last minute and he had to board a different ship back home to America.

The ship he should have boarded had his plans not changed?

RMS Titanic.
 
When I was a kid, Hershey's still used real chocolate. Don't blame the new formula on Milton. Side note, Hershey Pennsylvania is very much a theme town. There is Hershey Park, and the Chocolate Tour. Street lights are shaped like Kisses. They literally pump the smell of chocolate into the streets for that final touch. They go all-out for Christmas.
 
By the end of WWII, Canada had the world's third largest naval fleet, including;

2 escort carriers
2 armed merchant cruisers
43 Destroyers
71 frigates
121 corvettes
87 minesweepers
79 motor launches
30 motor torpedo boats
8 armed trawlers
48 landing craft
2 submarines (captured u-boats)
3 accommodation vessels
9 anti-submarine target towing vessels
1 cable layer
8 coil skids
5 diving vessels
24 gate vessels
381 harbour craft
1 hospital ship
2 mine laying vessels
16 minesweeper auxiliaries
2 mobile deperming craft (degaussing, to reduce a ship's magnetic signature)
59 patrol boats
1 survey vessel
12 support ships
3 tenders
12 training vessels
90 tugboats
2 W/T calibration vessels
16 various/multi use vessels
41 depot ships (stone frigates)

Whether commissioned or non-commissioned, hired or loaned, all vessels were crewed and under the command of the Royal Canadian Navy, on duty in the Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean and Caribbean.
 
Photon440 said:
By the end of WWII, Canada had the world's third largest naval fleet, including;

2 escort carriers
2 armed merchant cruisers
43 Destroyers
71 frigates
121 corvettes
87 minesweepers
79 motor launches
30 motor torpedo boats
8 armed trawlers
48 landing craft
2 submarines (captured u-boats)
3 accommodation vessels
9 anti-submarine target towing vessels
1 cable layer
8 coil skids
5 diving vessels
24 gate vessels
381 harbour craft
1 hospital ship
2 mine laying vessels
16 minesweeper auxiliaries
2 mobile deperming craft (degaussing, to reduce a ship's magnetic signature)
59 patrol boats
1 survey vessel
12 support ships
3 tenders
12 training vessels
90 tugboats
2 W/T calibration vessels
16 various/multi use vessels
41 depot ships (stone frigates)

Whether commissioned or non-commissioned, hired or loaned, all vessels were crewed and under the command of the Royal Canadian Navy, on duty in the Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean and Caribbean.
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What? No partridge in a pear tree? :lol:
 
The reason the plural of Goose is Geese (same with tooth/teeth) but the plural of Moose is still Moose, is because the aforementioned comes from the Latin language while the latter comes from Native American languages, so it doesn’t follow the same rules as most other words.

Did cowboys drink warm beer? Yes. Like today, beer was a staple drink at the bar. Unlike today, the beer of the 19th century was served at room temperature. Most often, beer was self-brewed, and whiskey was distilled by the saloon owner. While the beer probably tasted like a warm beer today, the whiskey was said to be horrible...

The word LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
 
Kern Dog said:
The reason the plural of Goose is Geese (same with tooth/teeth) but the plural of Moose is still Moose, is because the aforementioned comes from the Latin language while the latter comes from Native American languages, so it doesn’t follow the same rules as most other words.

Did cowboys drink warm beer? Yes. Like today, beer was a staple drink at the bar. Unlike today, the beer of the 19th century was served at room temperature. Most often, beer was self-brewed, and whiskey was distilled by the saloon owner. While the beer probably tasted like a warm beer today, the whiskey was said to be horrible...

The word LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
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The proliferation of electricity and invention of refrigeration were both driven by the warm beer situation.
In WI at least.




Kidding.

Carroll Shelby as a youth/rascal participated in some beer case heists from behind a couple local Texas bars with a friend that has access to a car. Yes, it was all warm in rural Texas still at that time. I think people forget how long it took to get electricity into rural USA.

Not kidding, it is in his biography.

As for old whisky being bad, that would all depend on who made it! Personally I think the modern ultra sterilized ultra mass produced stuff tastes like terpentine. You have to look pretty hard to find some good stuff. I found half a bottle from the 1940's stuck in the hay loft rafter when I was a youth and still recall it tasted pretty good. Yes, I was young enough(stupid!) to randomly try a bottle of whisky in the hay loft with only a sniff test. Maybe lucky I am still here lol.
 
In the 1850's/1860's the city of
Chicago was raised to allow for
the installation of their sewer system.
Entire buildings, fire hydrants, and
sidewalks were raised by as much as
14 feet using screw jacks and massive
man power.
 
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