The steady improvement cylinder technology made
little impression declining trade. would soon desert the cylinder.
After years declining sales and tremendous losses, TAE
Inc. All recording was stopped., went into slide, terrible slide
into the valley depression," from which never recovered. finally threw the towel. Sales the Edison
cylinder machine, the Amberola, were declining because the
Edison dealers took the introduction the disc signal
that TAE Inc. world-wide recession
after the disruption the World War quickly turned into a
depression West Orange the phonograph business, the main
profit maker TAE Inc.
Table 10-1 shows the steady downward trend phonograph
sales, which amount cost reductions the Works, or
improvements the lab, could halt. The depression of
1920/1921 finished off Edison's cylinder business for good.XIII- 6
Depression began early the 1920s. The
. October 1929 manufacture of
phonographs and records ceased. This was not
true, for Edison had policy not leave his customers with
obsolete technology and had intention abandoning the
cylinder format. fact the lab had continued research and
development into Blue Amberol records, and several patents were
awarded Edison and his co-workers cylinder records and
machines.
Although the diamond disc had eventually been turned into
a commercial success after the First World War, the Edison
phonograph business whole was weak. The
Great Depression had truly begun West Orange
