In a message dated 2/1/2010 3:28:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, jim...@earthlink.net writes:
"Sumner Tainter's 1881 Home Notes that appeared in "For the Record" the organ of the City of London Antique Phonograph and Gramophone Society that suggest that Tainter, not Berliner, was the originator of lateral cut wax disc recording as well as the acid etched duplicating process..." ----------------- Do the Notes indicate why Tainter abandoned the "zig-zag" recording, and persisted in his hillandale methods? Berliner was quite able to obtain his (workable) lateral recording patents (1887 on) without legal or other interference from Tainter. As a matter of fact, even Edison (pre-Tainter) discussed lateral recording in his first patent of 1878. Bell/Tainter's famous 341,214 does not even mention lateral recording. Allen _www.phonobooks.com_ (http://www.phonobooks.com) _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
