-stria- referring to the indents and -phone referring to the sound
-invented in 1846 by Samuel Morse
-after experimentation and developing it with eardrum in mind
-becomes a craze in the years that follows
-few individuals buy it but some companies buy it
-additionally rise of "striaphone stalls" - shops which offer customers to play recordings they have
-recording of Daniel Webster reciting the last section of the Second Reply to Calhoun ending up the holy grail of early striaphone records
-across pond also seen in France and British Isles and Germany and other places
-over 1850s is a sort of mature technology
-additionally, rise of compressed-air striaphones which have much higher volumes