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Vinyl Records: Black Magic at Work

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The History of Vinyl Recordings

In the 1930s is when record companies started to experiment with this because shellac was very breakable and being very brittle. It took a little while before they had all the playback equipment sort of synced up working well together. Most people credit a guy at CBS named Peter Goldmark for inventing the vinyl record that we know and love today.

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