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sound recording Conversion of sound waves into a form that can be stored and reproduced. Thomas Edison's phonograph (1877) recorded sound vibrations as indentations made by a stylus on a revolving cylinder wrapped in tinfoil. Another US inventor, German-born Emile Berliner produced a gramophone that improved the process by using a zinc disc instead of a cylinder. The volume was amplified by the ...

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