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ColoradoPhonograf wrote:Here's a scan of an original photo of Mr. Edison that I own. It appears to be an A-250 machine. I think he is trying to make his record selections that meet up with his approval.

ColoradoPhonograf,

Excellent photo, thank you for sharing it with us! Although...are you sure he isn’t deciding that he needs a larger/louder horn and considering designing it?

...He looks almost as if he’s trying to cup every possible iota of sound into his ear.

— MordEth

...and he’s doing it again in this image, which I found with our cylinder fans in mind:

Enjoy.

— MordEth

VictrolaGuy - Walt wrote:It's coming soon David and Sean. This time with a twist Ms. Gluck is being assimilated by the BORG(nine) at this very moment. Her resistance proved futile.

Walt,

You are giving me really disturbing ideas for Photoshop projects—fortunately I am safely distracted by the bottom half of the Grey Gull needle packet, three machine photos from George P., even more machine photos from brianu (I’m nearly done with the spider-leg VV-X), and quite a few record label transparencies.

I need to track down more pictures of artists, both to post here and to get more people in the stock avatar gallery. I’m awfully thin on the ‘people’ category.

— MordEth

I had a request for a Frank Fay avatar, so here is the cut image for that:

Enjoy.

— MordEth

VictrolaGuy - Walt wrote:

MordEth wrote:Sean demands that I re-post this picture of...but stipulates that Walt must post in response.

It's coming soon David and Sean. This time with a twist Ms. Gluck is being assimilated by the BORG(nine) at this very moment. Her resistance proved futile.

OMG, Noooo!!

How about an autographed Cal Stewart from 1905......

I need to get at least one Cal Stewart image in the stock avatar gallery, but in the meantime, here is Guglielmo Marconi:

— MordEth

And here is another Phonoautograph photo that I want to cut out at some point...

— MordEth

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— MordEth

Just like the one in my living room. Seriously, when I look at this it's hard to believe that Cros didn't experiment with indenting a recording for playback purposes!

Here is an Edison photo that wasn’t already on this board, from Life’s image archive. The version on Google images is black and white, but it is listed as a sepia print, so I applied sepia to it.

(Click on the image above or this link for a larger JPEG.)

Since I was mistaken in my reasons for wanting to post it, I figured that I’d remove the birthday thread and actually start another one when it’s the actual birthday, but I still wanted to post the image...and it wouldn’t hurt to bump this thread.

— MordEth