
Vinyl Records: Black Magic at Work
Stuff You Should Know
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Scott's Music Box, the Inverse of the Music Box
Edison came along and wasn't really working from Scott's work, but was a rival of Alexander Graham Bell. The vibrations of the diaphragm were etched in this case onto a sheet of paraffin wax with a needle. And he was basically like, wait a minute, we can record. It didn't just have to be phone calls. Like one day there shall be rock and roll.
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