"You MAKE me want to SMOKE!"

jujubeans

OVM Project Manager
Two ol farts
sitting in a tree
swapping barbs
as plain as you please

What better way
to kill some down time
I'd flip for the winner
But you'd both swipe my dime!

:D:):eek:
 

greg334

Veteran Expediter
Wax cylinders came long before wire recorders.

78's came before wire recorders.

Wire recorders came around the 1920's as Dictaphones, hit the consumer market in ca. 1933 but still appeared in some catalogs in 1960.

If you want you buy one, I have 10 Webster Chicago wire recorders from the 40's and 50's and the spools of wire (lots and lots of them) I could sell you.
 

OntarioVanMan

Retired Expediter
Owner/Operator
Wax cylinders came long before wire recorders.

78's came before wire recorders.

Wire recorders came around the 1920's as Dictaphones, hit the consumer market in ca. 1933 but still appeared in some catalogs in 1960.

If you want you buy one, I have 10 Webster Chicago wire recorders from the 40's and 50's and the spools of wire (lots and lots of them) I could sell you.

78's should come after wire....I had 78's and then came the 45's with the Beatles in the late 50's early 60's along with 33 albums...
 

greg334

Veteran Expediter
OVM, wire recorders depend on electronics to work, the Dictaphone (I used the term incorrectly but I mean any dictation machine, Dictaphones actually used wax cylinders) was not high quality nor used much in electronics for those wire recording types. The gramophone (78s) did not used electronis.

I have a collection of early disc recordings, which includes Enrico Caruso from 1905 through 1920. They aren't worth much but they are cool to look at and if someone didn't steal my portable gramophone, I would listen to them.

33's came around 1947 or 48, 45's came in '49 and 16's (RPMS) which were used for some Vitaphone recordings and acetate discs (which was used for radio transcriptions, training film strip production and other fun and live shows like Jack Benny)
 
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