The Mapleson Cylinders that Lived in Bridgeport: William H. Seltsam, Lionel Mapleson, and Ghosts of the Golden Met
By Professor Jeffrey Johnson, University of Bridgeport, 2018 Bridgeport was quick to recognize the commercial potential of recorded music, and it became an early center for the production of phonographic machines and recordings. Perhaps the energy of that enterprise made its residents particularly aware of recordings ...