Gershon *Sirota was the first cantor to record liturgicals commercially. One of the most widespread Jewish subjects on recordings was cantorial music. In 1887 Emile *Berliner produced a lateral flat disc mechanism, bringing the disc 'gramophone' into competition with the cylinder 'phonograph.' By 1891 recordings were introduced to public entertainment as coin-in-slot machines, and soon included some Jewish monologues, skits, and songs. Edison in 1878 as a vertical cylinder device.
The earliest 'talking machine' was patented by Thomas A.
