Tinfoil.com offers a free service to owners and institutions holding early brown wax sound recordings to digitally transfer and catalog their recordings. Here is the way it works: The cylinder ...

For one thing, it got much, much shorter. Early wax cylinders—followed in 1895 by the shellac discs of the inventor Emile Berliner—could hold only two to three minutes of audio. But the live ...

The first commercial medium for audio recording and playback used a wax cylinder. Similar to the phonograph record that later followed, sound waves were turned into mechanical vibrations that ...

Morgan-Ellis, left, and students creating a wax cylinder recording that will be preserved in the MTSU archive. A rare opportunity was creating a wax cylinder recording that will be preserved in the ...