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Subject: Re: Record speeds - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 30-Sep-84 00:23:48 EDT
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inmet!lutton    Sep 28 19:18:00 1984

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I need to correct a misconception:
The first use of flat records (rather than cylinders) was by Emile
Berliner in 1887.  By 1893 he was selling gramophones and records.
The machine Nipper is staring into in "His Master's Voice" is an
1896 Improved Gramophone.

Cylinders originally were individually recorded; later I think
they were molded like bottles.  But it was flat records that were
really DESIGNED for mass production.  Thousands could be stamped
out from a single master.  Also they took less space in storage.
So they quickly eclipsed cylinders.