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Posted: **Fri Aug 08, 2025 7:57 am**

“On This Day in the History of Recorded Sound…”

August 8, 1900: Eldridge Johnson filed for a U.S. patent for “Sound Record.” This new process would introduce the first use of a paper label on the recorded side of a disc. These would be the “Improved Gramophone Record” which appeared at the same time.

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Posted: **Fri Aug 08, 2025 11:29 am**

Now THAT would be a fun one to find in a stack!

Posted: **Fri Aug 08, 2025 12:05 pm**

Dischoard wrote: Fri Aug 08, 2025 11:29 am Now THAT would be a fun one to find in a stack!

It was!

George P.

Posted: **Wed Aug 13, 2025 2:47 am**

That weird time period between Berliner and Victor needs to be looked at more.

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