Transformation As a Creative Process
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Artifacts of Recorded Sound & Moving Image

At the end of the 19th century, inventors transformed the world with the development of recorded sound and moving image. On display are wax cylinder players, gramophones, transistor radios, DATs and other pieces of recording and playback technology from the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.
Mapleson Cylinders
Lionel Mapleson at the Metropolitan Opera, ca. 1901-1902
Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
     
Two of more than 140 original Mapleson wax cylinders recorded between 1901 and 1904, and their recordings in the collections of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound