How the Cylinder Phonograph Works 

that’s so sweet!

yessir

amen.

ngl something is clearly wrong…. praying for you bobby

RIP Bob

indeed

Edison was a curious smart inventor who learned on his own and made this, wow

@@The_Hero_Hunter my inner history nerd is coming out. Edison wasn’t really an inventer. He was a business man that owned a firm and stamped his name on everything his firm invented. He wasn’t a good person. Tesla is the real inventor history needs to credit.

​@@noyou113lol😂😂😂😂😂 it was not tesla

@@Aff_que_cringe I never said it was. 🙄

absolutely awesome this thing

It really is crazy. It's amazing. I wish I could thank the creators somehow, my life would really suck if I couldn't listen to, or record music. It improves my life every day.

i looked up wax cylinder and saw your comment on florence nightingale and am now looking up florence nightingales voice on a cylinder

I’m here because it’s in syllabus 😭

@teammm same

haha, i came here from a rabbit hole of video of someone playing some old classics and was curious about "what is a wax Cylinder?" now I've learned the history of the phonograph, and how they work in the past hour! The internet is amazing.. although, I don't think I'll ever have any use this information, it's been a fun rabbit hole, and it never hurts to learn, right? ...Right? (Lol, I need to go to bed) Also, as an amateur musician, this is just so amazing to me. Talk about a pioneer, the first to record sound! That is, to me, one of the most amazing inventions, up there with cameras. Such a cool thing to understand and see.

oooh i read almost all sherlock holmes novels, in what novel the phonograph was mentioned ?

How do you put the. Cylinder on.

Rosa Davis on the side with the crank, there is a silver switch, I think you pull it up and the black bar by the cylinder holder pulls out

So true

bob if you are alive come visit us too

Ayo rip my idol😞✊

What happened

wait can somebody pls explain to me what is going on?

same bro

@@slobonmaknob3490 watching this for fun hahah

Luckiest person on earth

Just watching this because I love this stuff

Oh, a Gem? Those New York versions sure are interesting! It sounds like yours has a broken spring.

@@gunnarthefeisty I forgot this post, mine had a loose gear, it now work, but had to closely analyse it to find the culprit ;-) tks!

Hurbii I was wondering the same thing. Maybe magic?

Josh Ludwick apparently it records vibrations. The vibrations themselves, voices, instruments are the sound I guess? They each make unique waves. Fascinating.

Yea I want to know it 🤔

There's no machine that can actually record sound literally record sound that's not how it works its the machine that makes the sound that's how it works it's not it recording it's the machine making the sound think of like an engine idling is that considered recording a sound the same repeated sound no it's just the sound it makes when you actually sit there and think how can you actually record something it's not possible think about it before any technology before any computers before anything how can you record a sound how can you talk into a device and then hit the play button and let it keep playing exactly you can't it's not possible what would you use the only way is if you hit hit a button that causes chain reaction that causes the noise that you're trying to effect notice all those spindles and pulleys and all that s*** in that phonograph just to make that sound that's all chain reaction just to make those sounds it's not a recording it's just the machine making that sounds that's how music works that's how all sounds from everything works there's no such thing as recordings the machines is what gives the sounds now I know you're going to say oh if I record myself saying something isn't that my voice no it's not your voice that's why your voice does not sound the same to you when you listen to it but what you're doing is you're giving the machine something to say back to you it's not really your voice I don't know if this makes sense or not but technology is not what you think it is got to think outside the box got to think backwards

This is a reproducer, not a recorder. The recorder machine would be lots like this, except the cylinder would be covered with something soft like wax. Once a performance was recorded, the cylinder impression would be hardened enough to make copies on the cylinders such as were then sold. The recording process was similar in principle, but I don’t know the materials that were used so as to be able to be duplicated.

i think wax went 160 rpm but i’m not too sure

same

We are a museum so we don't sell things but you can try private antique markets.

You can buy them on eBay. Remember, there are 2 different types of cylinders - 2 minute and 4 minute.

@@osbornto Thanks

the grooves go up and down and vibrate the stylus, this makes noise i guess

i wish i could research this

Thanks. Great. Video

did you wind it up?

@raymondny123 it took a minute to figure out how to wind it. It's a weird way. I'm use to fully turning a bar

what type do you have? i have an amberola 30

You're not wrong, but the point of this video was less to give credit to Edison for inventing the phonograph, and more to explain how the machine actually works. C'mon man, you're smarter than this.

Edison thought of how to record and play back a voice and his staff built the first one that worked. He patented in in 1877. It was amazing to all. The latter practical version s of course had a lot of input from this technical staff. But the brilliance of the first idea and demonstration of recording and playing back a voice is Edison. The light bulb is a different story.

It is definitely strange when you first think about it. But it's all based on common science/physics. And, the vinyl records and record players as we know them today pretty much work on the exact same principle, where a neetle/stylus moves over grooves in a disk to play sound waves (of course the difference being that vinyl records use, well, vinyl... and not wax :)).

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They vibrate air at the perfect frequency

I assume it's the same way you get sound off a flat disc record - the stylus vibrates against the grooves as they are spun.

The groove is one long spiral. The spiral sides are not totally even, but cut with vibrations. The vibrations wiggle the stylus/needle, which wiggles a diaphragm, making sound in the air. The horn just captures and directs the wiggling air so its sound is louder.

what was your question?

("did you know that not everyone is a native English speaker?!"), Yes, but this is America and we speak English here, thusly the video is in English!

Yes we realize not everyone is a native speaker but we can't speak everyone's language all at the same time and considering you are the one who's on a English speaking persons video I think you sound kind of a bit like a entitled dumb ass.

I guess there are even haters out there when it comes to Edison phonographs.

So what was his role? making it cheap to mass produce through some tweaks? branding it through his company while an employee perfected it? Buying the crude invention from another and making it marketable? Those are the usual answers.