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Sound recording : the life story of a technology / David L. Morton, Jr.

By: Morton, David, 1964-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore, Md. : Oxford : Johns Hopkins University Press ; Harcourt Education [distributor], 2006Description: xiii, 215 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780801883989 (pbk.) :; 0801883989 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- History | Sound recording industry -- HistoryDDC classification: 621.3'893'09 Summary: How did one of the great inventions of the 19th century - Thomas Edison's phonography - eventually lead to one of the most culturally and economically significant technologies of the 20th and 21st centuries? This text traces the history of the cultural revolution begun by Edison's invention.
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Originally published: Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-205) and index.

How did one of the great inventions of the 19th century - Thomas Edison's phonography - eventually lead to one of the most culturally and economically significant technologies of the 20th and 21st centuries? This text traces the history of the cultural revolution begun by Edison's invention.

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