Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!lutton From: lutton@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Record speeds - (nf) Message-ID: <1696@inmet.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Sep-84 00:23:48 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.1696 Posted: Sun Sep 30 00:23:48 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Oct-84 03:42:54 EDT Lines: 15 #R:lanl-a:-1381200:inmet:2600105:000:559 inmet!lutton Sep 28 19:18:00 1984 <> 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.