IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a business dictation machine ...

Boomboxes and cars with trunk speakers have been ways to express identity with plenty of volume. For those who cultivated them, it was music to their ears. As for others, well, one man's music is ...

It is a woman’s voice, but it sounds as though it comes drifting toward us across some vast and unbridgeable distance. It is all but drowned out by the snaps and the crackles and pops of what is by ...

15 September 1888: The Edison ‘Phonograph’ and the Tainter ‘Graphophone’ are rival machines by which the sounds of human voice can be recorded and reproduced The Edison "Phonograph" and the Tainter ...

Syracuse University had a very odd tradition back in the 19 th Century. On Class Day, as part of the school's week-long commencement activities, held then in June, members of the senior class would ...

Depression teaches humility, softens pride. For many years the two great talking machine companies of the world have wanted to merge, time & again they have refused to make minor concessions. But last ...