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Removeable & Replayable Records

Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 7:45 am
by phonogfp
“On This Day in the History of Recorded Sound…”

December 4, 1885: Charles Sumner Tainter filed for a U.S. patent for “Apparatus for Recording and Reproducing Sound.” This was the first use of wax recording, and the first design for removable and replayable records.

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