How a Graphophone records and plays sound

How a Graphophone records and plays sound
The vertical “hill-and-dale” groove, as played by a Columbia Graphophone, c. 1902. Patented by Charles Sumner Tainter, Chichester A. Bell, and Alexander Graham Bell in 1886, this vertically undulating groove, cut into a wax surface, was the most successful method employed in cylinder sound recording.
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