Sorry for being gone so long. I'm still figuring out the precise work/life balance where I can have time to write posts when I'm at home, not just come home and fall asleep.

I wrote this post for my Tumblr late last year, and just never got around to crossposting it.

Without further ado: a quick course in wax cylinders.

How did people actually talk, way back in the 1910s? How can we find out?

Well, there's one answer: we can listen to them.

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