Dover, Delaware: Johnson Victrola Museum
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- Address:
- 375 S. New St., Dover, DE
- Directions:
- Hwy 1 exit 98. Drive west into town on Little Creek Rd/Division St. Cross State St., then take the third left onto New St. The museum will be four blocks south, on the right, at the corner of Bank Lane and New St.
- Hours:
- W-Sa 9-4:30 (Call to verify)
- Phone:
- 302-739-3262
- Admission:
- Free, donations welcome.
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
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Edison invented the record player, but it was Dover's Eldridge Reeves Johnson who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901. See Nipper the Dog exhibit and Johnson's posthumous Grammy.
Roadsideamerica.com Report... [08/04/2013]Visitor Tips and News About Johnson Victrola Museum
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This was a fun museum, with excellent docents covering key innovations in the quest for reproduction of music, and the corporate histories behind RCA Victor. I found the hybrid Victrola/Electrola machines to be especially interesting forebears to our late 20th century entertainment systems.
Having just visited Huntsville's Signals museum and the Oaks, PA American Treasures museum, both rich with vintage music machines, this was an interesting bridge from acoustical to electronically assisted reproduction of music.
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