Böcker av Timothy C. Fabrizio

The early history of recorded sound, Mr. Edisons most marvelous achievement, brimmed with graphic imagery elegant, dazzling and delightful! Follow these award-winning authors on a bewitching tour of visual artifacts from the phonographs first fifty years. There are colorful advertising placards, charming publicity posters, clever promotional giveaways, stunning catalog covers, and an astounding selection of gorgeous, hand-painted signs from rare coin-operated record machines. 500 full color illustrations and insightful captions will keep you turning the pages. An entire chapter is devoted to real life images of ordinary people interacting with the new technology the amazing talking machine. Whether your interest is antique collecting, history, advertising, photography or social science, you will treasure this book.

The evolution of phonograph design in twentieth-century America is full of gleaming metal, glistening wood, pastel plastic, glowing dials and fashionable fabrics. Through 340 color illustrations and detailed captions that the authors have assembled, the development of phonograph design is engagingly explored from the early 1900s through the disco days of the 1970s. All who are interested in phonograph collecting, design, art, music and twentieth-century social history will be fascinated by this book.

Out of the authors' latest explorations, this gorgeous new book has come to life---illustrating entirely different talking machines from those in their previous books. Follow the progress of the acoustic talking machine from its crude beginnings in the 1870s to its most splendid and sophisticated heights in the early 20th century. An unparalleled archive of rare, fascinating, and previously undocumented objects has been assembled. The story behind the beautiful, bright machinery is told through clear and insightful descriptions, and many previously unpublished facts are revealed.