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- From: myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:52:17 GMT
- Subject: Re: HELP! Info on MD and DCC
- Message-ID: <7490254@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
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- > > The record
- > >
- > Thomas Edison invented the cylinder record; I don't know who invented
- > the disc record. Peter Goldmark of CBS is usually credited with
- > inventing the LP record (1948).
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-
- Oddly enough, Thomas Edison invented BOTH formats - he experimented with
- the disc design fairly early on. He just commercialized the cylinder
- first.
-
- >
- > For some years Lear Seigler, Inc., owned rights to it but I don't
- > know who actually invented it. Who would want to take credit for it?
- > >
-
- I have been informed by several people, via e-mail (they couldn't post),
- that it was in fact Bill Lear. (Or was that Normal Lear? :-))
-
-
- > BTW, stereo records were first manufactured in 1957.
-
- Hey, anybody remember the ORIGINAL stereo disc format, in which there were
- two completely separate tracks, and you played the thing with a Y-shaped
- tonearm?
-
-
- Bob Myers | "One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."
- myers@fc.hp.com | - Lazarus Long/Robert A. Heinlein
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