If this is your first page of entry please head for the start page and read articles in correct order! Cylinders had peaked in popularity around 1905. After this period, Berliner discs and disc players, most notably the Victrolas, began to take dominance of the market. Columbia Records, an Edison competitor, had stopped marketing cylinders in 1912. The Edison Company was fully devoted to cylinder phonographs, but became concerned with the rising popularity of the flat discs! |