Tuesday Treasure: Phonograph Cylinders
Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport, CT, United StatesToday, you can listen to your favorite song with a few taps on your smartphone. Even if you’re a little more old-fashioned, you can have a record or CD spinning within a minute or so. However, the earliest lovers of recorded music didn’t have the luxury of such simple mechanisms. Phonograph cylinders were the earliest ...