Before mobile media, there was moving media – the records, discs, and rolls that made the modern era of music. The vanguards of this genre came out of the Age of Invention of the 19th century, engineering sophisticated mechanisms to bring sound into homes and commercial spaces across the world. Engineers of great skill and musicians of high talent pioneered new forms of entertainment. Their craft remains core to the heritage presented here: a gallery of instruments that heralded our era of recorded and reproduced sound.