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In 1877, Thomas Edison's "talking machine" got America listening -- and we never stopped. What we listen to defines us personally and collectively. Recorded sound has provided a kind of national soundtrack -- one that shapes our sense of what it means to be American.
From this window shines the image of Nipper listening to a record -- the trademark of Emile Berliner's gramophone company that in 1901 became the Victor Talking Machine Company (later RCA). The window was one of four made in 1915 by D'Ascenzo Studios in Philadelphia for a tower at the Victor Company's headquarters in Camden, New Jersey. |