Imagine if your couch or your coffee maker suddenly started talking to you — or perhaps launched into the chorus of “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain.” What would your reaction be? Consider that, ...

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The aged wax cylinder in Carl Haber's hands was cracked and spotted with greenish mold, too fragile now to be played with a record needle, as it was intended. With a vintage Edison Standard Phonograph ...

Q: What’s cylindrical, made of wax, and part of one of history’s great showdowns? A: These records in the museum collection with audio recorded 130 years ago. Three wax cylinders recorded in 1889 from ...

If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger. But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, ...