This day in music history:
November 23, 1889- The world's first jukebox is installed.
November 23, 1889- The world's first jukebox is installed.
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| November 23, 1889- The world's first jukebox is installed. |
Constructed by the Pacific Phonograph Company it consisted of four stethoscope-like tubes attached to an Edison Class M electric phonograph fitted inside an oak cabin...et. The tubes operated individually, each being activated by the insertion of a coin, meaning that four different listeners could be plugged in to the same song simultaneously....up to two minutes, all for a nickel. The machine was originally called the “nickel-in-the-slot player” by Louis T. Glass, the entrepreneur who installed it at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Fransisco.
http://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/jukebox_history_of_coin_operated_phonographs.html
http://81.83.5.134/doc-pub/lists/tijdlijn/tijdlijn04_grote-wereldrijken(1860-1891).html
