In my "E-mail" I mistakenly dated Tainter's Home Notes as being from 1880 rather than the correct 1881. Sorry!
Jim Cartwright Immortal Performances, Inc. [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: Allan Sutton Sent: 29-Jun-2010 1:05:47 PM Subject: FW: Charles Sumner Tainter 1881 Notes Dear Mr. Sutton: As I stated in my previous "E-mail," here is my "E-mail" sent to Mr. Paul with attached scans of relevant pages from the "For the Record" article on Charles Sumner Tainter's 1881 lateral-cut wax disc graphophone. Your thoughts on this would be interesting. All the best... Very truly yours, Jim Cartwright Immortal Performances, Inc. [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: George Paul Sent: 14-Jun-2010 1:45:21 PM Subject: Charles Sumner Tainter 1881 Notes Dear Mr. Paul: Some time ago we had an "E-mail" correspondence about the 1881 "Home Notes" of Charles Sumner Tainter detailing his work on the Graphophone in that year, now at the Smithsonian Institution, published in part in "For the Record," the journal of the City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society Ltd., copies of relevant pages I sent some months ago to your co-author Tim Fabrizio from whom I have received no response & whom you said had not shared these with you. Attached, please find scans of Mr. Tainter's notes & drawings taken from the "For the Record" articles which rather conclusively reveal that he & his associates at the Volta Laboratory in Washington were the originators of lateral-cut wax disc recording as well as the acid-etched process. As you know, Emile Berliner has been credited for these inventions. I think it curious that Berliner also in Washington at the time had sold his telephone transmitter patent to the Bell Telephone interests with which the Volta Laboratory was affiliated years before claiming to have invented the lateral-cut recording process It seems we have a situation akin to that of the invention of electronic television once attributed to RCA corporate scientist Vladimir Zworykin but now justly credited to Philo Farnsworth. I hope that you & Mr. Fabrizio will take steps to see that credit is given to Tainter for the invention of lateral-cut wax disc recording & the acid-etched process if in your expert opinion this is due him. I shall be curious to know your response to this data. Again let me thank you for your superb research & beautifully illustrated books. Sending all good wishes, I remain... Very truly yours, Jim Cartwright Immortal Performances, Inc. 1404 West 30th Street Austin, Texas 78703-1402 (512) 478-9954 [email protected] -------------- ATTACHMENT -------------- **An Attachment Was Scrubbed** Name: ftr3.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 315707 bytes URL: <http://oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20100912/867323ab/attachment.jpg> -------------- ATTACHMENT -------------- **An Attachment Was Scrubbed** Name: ftr2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 319843 bytes URL: <http://oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20100912/867323ab/attachment-0001.jpg> -------------- ATTACHMENT -------------- **An Attachment Was Scrubbed** Name: ftr1.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 333337 bytes URL: <http://oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20100912/867323ab/attachment-0002.jpg> _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
