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==Gallery== <gallery mode="packed"> File:CylinderRecordsWPackage.jpg|Two Edison cylinder records (left and right) and their cylindrical cardboard boxes (center) File:Brownwaxcylinders.jpg|Brown wax cylinders showing various shades (and mold damage) File:EdisonSlip1903.JPG|Paper record slip from 1903 cylinder File:EdisonSlip1903backside.JPG|Back side of 1903 record slip File:ColumbiaCylLabelPortion.jpg|Portion of the label from the outside of a Columbia cylinder box, before 1901. Note that the title is handwritten. File:Edisongoldmoulded.jpg|Edison Gold Moulded record made of relatively hard black wax, c. 1904 File:BlueAmberolRim.jpg|Rim of Edison "[[Blue Amberol Records|Blue Amberol]]" celluloid cylinder with plaster core File:AmberolLid.jpg|[[Blue Amberol Records|Blue Amberol]] cylinder box lid File:PhonographCylinders.JPG|Disc records and cylinders File:Wax cylinder in Dictaphone.jpg|Cylinder on Dictaphone dictation machine (c. 1922). The recording head moved left to right. The black lines are shiny gaps between tracks. Each cylinder could record 1,200 to 1,500 words. They could be reused 100 to 120 times by putting them in a machine that erased them by shaving off the surface. File:Cylinderscolors.JPG|Celluloid phonograph cylinders displaying a variety of colors File:Cylindersdiameter.JPG|Wax phonograph cylinders in a variety of diameters File:Cylinderslength.JPG|Wax phonograph cylinders in a variety of lengths File:Mapleson cylinders.jpg|A sound engineer holds one of the [[Mapleson Cylinders]] containing a fragment of a live performance recorded at the [[Metropolitan Opera]] in 1901. File:Amberola close-up.jpg|Close-up of the mechanism of an Edison Amberola, manufactured c. 1915 File:Thomas Edison listening to wax cylinder, 1888.png|Thomas Edison in 1888 listening to a wax cylinder phonograph at the Edison laboratory, Orange, N.J. File:CBS-Listening-Post-Cylinders-1941.jpg|Delivering Ediphone wax cylinder recordings of propaganda broadcasts for analysis at the CBS listening post (May 1941) File:CBS-Listening-Post-Transcription-1941.jpg|Transcribing propaganda broadcasts from Europe recorded on Ediphone cylinders at the CBS listening post (May 1941) File:Edison cylinder playback demo.webm|Playback demonstration of a recording and playback demonstration at the [[Thomas Edison National Historical Park]] in [[West Orange, New Jersey]] File:Edison cylinder recording demo.webm|Recording demonstration </gallery>
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