Yes, There Were Jukeboxes in 1889
I’m not even sure what the analog would even be for this audio device, which is shown in a photo circa 1889. It’s part-phonograph, part-walkman, part-jukebox, all-strange. According to Life, who featured this music maker in their timeline of music players, the device funneled noise from the record player through stethograph-like tubes and into the…
