There are digitizations of wax cylinders, antique phonographs, and other experimental technologies. This is, ironically, an old website dependent on an old digital format: RealMedia. The bad news ...

1900: Phonographs play sound recorded on cardboard cylinders coated with wax. Invented in 1885, they replaced Thomas Edison's foil-wrapped metal cylinders. 1901: Emile Berliner invents the ...