We love our technology. In fact everybody here at WebsiteForensics has an iPod Touch, iTunes, thousands of mp3 files as well has hundreds of CDs. Some of us even had old tapes, LPs, EPs. One of us even owns a USB turntable – but what of music of yesteryear? We don’t just mean 78’s, we mean music from up to 120 years ago … We are talking about cylinder records from the 1870s to the 1920s. Cylinders made out of tinfoil, brown wax and plastic …

Well, this is where technology from today comes into play. From sound software to dedicated websites, these cylinder records have been saved from technological oblivion by a diverse and dedicated team!

To learn more about Phonograph Cylinders: Wikipedia

The cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project: An initiative of the UC Santa Barbara Library

The cylinder archive – a website devoted to one of the greatest inventions of the last century – Thomas Alva Edison’s Phonograph.

The Archive.org website’s is dedicated to cylinder records but all types of recordings. The library contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings including cylinder records.