Phonograph and Experimental Sound Recording, Wax Disc on Binder’s Board
name: label: maker
content: Volta Laboratory Associates
notes: label: Description
content: This is an experimental disc made in the Volta Laboratory, Washington, D.C. on an unknown date. It features two tunes of instrumental music. An unidentified cornet quartet plays “Killarney” and “Hot-Shot March.” The recording was found on an experimental piece of equipment, Cat. 287655.
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content: Sound was recovered from this recording in 2013.
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content: References:
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content: <a href="http://www.phonozoic.net/griffonage/pdfs/volta-discography.pdf">Patrick Feaster, “A Discography of Volta Laboratory Recordings at the National Museum of American History” </a>
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content: Leslie J. Newville, “Development of the Phonograph at Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory,” in Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, United States National Museum Bulletin 218, Paper 5 (1959): 69-79.
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content: <a href="http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/recording.technology.history/graphophone.html">Steven E. Schoenherr, “Charles Sumner Tainter and the Graphophone,”</a>
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content: Wile, Raymond R. "The Development of Sound Recording at the Volta Laboratory," Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal 21, No. 2, 1990, pp. 208-225.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Communications
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content: Hear My Voice
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Alexander Graham Bell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.287655.01
label: catalog number
content: 287655.01
label: accession number
content: 57694
objectType: label: Object Name
content: experimental disc graphophone
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content: experimental record player
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content: graphophone
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 15 1/8 in x 12 in; 38.1 cm x 38.4175 cm x 30.48 cm