Awesome vintage tube record

[MasterBlaster]

Amazing, check out this guy showing this very unique record in the form of a tube.
According to the presenter, it was one of a kind.


Tech TV - Broken Record blooper

[OCCD]

Oops...

[bmwr75]

Funny video.....but these tube records are not that rare I don't think.  I have one a relative gave to me.

[Kingman]

Looks like stuff that happens to me when I'm trying hard not to F anything up. 

[MasterBlaster]

Funny video.....but these tube records are not that rare I don't think.  I have one a relative gave to me.

Yeah, I've seen them before as well.  I was baiting the post. 
This was a live tv show that was on zdtv. I saw it when it actually happened and nearly pissed my pants laughing.

[DaveS]

You guys seem to think the recording industry started with electricity.  These things are readily available all over the world, in fact if you look in your garndma`s attic you may find one that still works or will with a little TLC..  The tubes came first by Edison then the flats.  One of the problems witht the tubes was they are VERY brittle so if you ever fine any treat them with kid gloves.

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Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeater and his other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention which first gained him fame was the phonograph in 1877. This accomplishment was so unexpected by the public at large as to appear almost magical. Edison became known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park," New Jersey, where he lived. His first phonograph recorded on tinfoil around a grooved cylinder and had poor sound quality. The tinfoil recordings could be replayed only a few times. In the 1880s, a redesigned model using wax-coated cardboard cylinders was produced by Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, and Charles Tainter. This was one reason that Thomas Edison continued work on his own "Perfected Phonograph

READ MORE AT:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

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[Kingman]

You guys seem to think the recording industry started with electricity.

...I thought it started when Bob was at Phase Linear? 

[Slim-Shaddy]

LOL

[DaveS]

Just to give an idea how old the recording industry it:

http://thepianoworld.com/technical_tips/history_of_the_self_playing_pian.htm

And hundreds of years before that there were music boxes,  the technology doesn`t  seem to inpress anyone nowadays but in their time were pure magic.  If you ever get a chance to listen to one that is 18 to 24 inches wide or longer you will understand.

My sister-in-law has one like this:

Antique Music Box supermandoline full programme

[MasterBlaster]

I have been thinking about the guys comment about the tube recording being
"one of a kind" and I bet he was referring to the recording itself rather than the media tube.

DaveS Thanks for the clip of the music box.
Those things are quite impressive and I agree all of this technology
would have been considered revolutionary at the time.

According to the video's info it is from the 1860's and appears to be in very good condition.
I wonder if it was restored.

Like you said, people find this stuff unimpressive. I think that nowadays, people are so accustomed to the advancement of tech that breakthroughs are taken for granted.

I.e: A phone that has no wires, can hold thousands of songs, videos, and games? meh.