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The company was also known as the Albany Indestructible Record Company and acquired the patent rights held by Lambert. It produced celluloid cylinders in two-minute and, from 1909, four-minute versions, each having a cardboard core with metal reinforcing rings. Between 1907 and 1922, it produced
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infringement. Messer had been responsible for developing a means of mass-producing the Lambert cylinders using a steam press. In 1906 he set up the Indestructible Phonographic Record Co. in
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retail stores. In 1917 the company was re-organized as the Federal Record Corporation of Albany, New York, which began disc record production in 1919 as the
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1,598 titles, almost all of which have survived. The cylinders are described as "rugged" and "practically immune to splitting".
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cylinder records. In 1900, the records were made by the Lambert Company, but that company went bankrupt in early 1906 after
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label. After a factory fire in 1922, the company ceased making cylinders, and it formally closed down in 1925.
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The company was established by William Messer, who had worked with Thomas Lambert, the inventor of plastic
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From Tinfoil to Stereo: The Acoustic Years of the Recording Industry, 1877-1929
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From 1908 to 1912, the Indestructible Company's output was distributed by
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American Record Labels and Companies: An Encyclopedia (1891–1943)
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Walter, Leslie Welch; Stenzel, Burt; Leah, Brodbeck (1994).
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Defunct American music company that sold cylinder records
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Cylinder Records: Significance, Production, and Survival
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Edison Cylinder and Disc Record Development, July 1906
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Indestructible Records
Albany

Samuel Siegel and Roy Butin play Estillita Waltz.
Samuel Siegel
Roy Butin
media help
cylinder records
celluloid
Thomas Edison
patent
Albany
Columbia Records
Sears, Roebuck
Montgomery Ward
Federal


Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound
ISBN
978-0-203-48427-2


Bill Klinger, Cylinder Records: Significance, Production, and Survival, Library of Congress, 2007, pp.4-14
Edison Cylinder and Disc Record Development, July 1906
From Tinfoil to Stereo: The Acoustic Years of the Recording Industry, 1877-1929
ISBN
978-0-8130-1317-6
ISBN
0-9671819-0-9

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