Gelatt Roland. The fabulous phonograph, 1877-1977

Second revised edition. — New York: Macmillan, 1977. — 349 p. — ISBN 0025429604. — ISBN 0020326807.History of the phonograph in text and photographs covering the technology advances and the business enterprises that promoted phonographs and sound recording.Foreword.
Talking tin foil.
Cylinders in business.
Entertainment for a nickel.
Emile Berliner's disc.
At home with the phonograph.
The improving gramophone.
Europe welcomes the talking machine.
A musical instrument.
Victor makes a debut.
The Red Seal epoch.
Decline and fall of the cylinder.
The orchestra came last.
Jazz in Chippendale.
Symphonies from Europe.
The flattened Victrola.
Recording becomes electric.
Largess from the microphone.
The phonograph in twilight.
Proceeds from a merger.
The road back.
A war and its aftermath.
Renaissance at a new speed.
1955 : annus mirabilis.
The sound of stereo.
En route to a mass market.