The Tinfoil Phonograph at Cutler Library

Past event
Nov 3, 2018, 2 to 3:30 PM

Come to the Cutler Library In Plainfield on Saturday November 3rd from 2 to 3:30 pm to see and hear the original method of recording and playing back sound.

David Hale', local teacher, artist and machinist has just completed a study about the birth of the phonograph that resulted in a 1/2 size working museum model of a tinfoil phonograph. David will demonstrate and discuss this earliest of recording technology on his miniature replica of the kind of demonstration tinfoil phonograph that was first made available for sale to the public in 1878.

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