Wax Cylinder Collection [9min @ 14:23]

If you reach back in your memory, you just might be able to remember the L.P. You know, those large discs that people used to listen to recorded music. But the University of California wants to take you back even further in recording history, to the era of cylinders. Wax cylinders were the first commercially-produced sound recordings, and they were popular at the turn of the 20th century. Now, the university's library has digitized more than 5,000 such recordings and made them available on the internet. David Seubert is the manager of the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the Donald C. Davidson Library. He is in Santa Barbara, California.