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200 - Swiper, No Swiping

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Nodumbquestionssciencehistorydestinmattsmartereverydaysmartereeryday, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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0:00.0

All right, I've got a thing here, Matt.

0:09.4

Do you want to...

0:10.7

It's a wax cylinder player.

0:13.1

Do you remember the wax...

0:13.9

You were with me the day I got this, right?

0:16.0

Yeah, or you had just picked it up recently.

0:18.0

It's beautiful.

0:19.3

Absolutely beautiful.

0:22.7

I've got just a ton of wax cylinders here. I haven't played any of them. Well, that's not true. I've played some of them.

0:28.0

And I played some for Hank Green the other day on the project for awesome thing we were doing.

0:31.5

But I would just like to play some of these wax cylinders for you. Can we do that? Their audio

0:36.5

format. Okay, hold on a second. Not everybody knows what a wax cylinder is. Can you describe what you. Can we do that? Their audio format.

0:38.4

Okay, hold on a second.

0:40.0

Not everybody knows what a wax cylinder is.

0:42.0

Can you describe what you have in front of you right now?

0:42.8

Mm-hmm.

0:44.7

So I've got a box.

0:47.8

It looks like some kind of small piece of furniture,

0:51.7

except it just sits on the top of your desk.

0:53.1

It's a square box.

0:59.4

It's got a Roman-style coping on top of it. And imagine you can lift it up like a clam.

1:03.0

And so you open it up and there's this metal cylinder inside

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