This listing includes phonograph records of a general nature. Records may also be found in other categories relating to the subject of the record.
Records have changed is size and shape through the years.
Generally speaking the following dates can be used as a measurement. The cylinder-shaped phonograph record for use with the early Edison models was made about 1889. Disc records were first made by 1894 however were primarily one-sided. The double- sided discs reached the market in 1904. High-fidelity records were first issued in 1944, the first vinyl disc in 1946, the first stereo record in 1958.