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Streaming music in 1900

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Found this interesting.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/article..._25_2015)&mc_cid=4f67486982&mc_eid=cf1ce6332e


An entire floor of the building, which came to be known as Telharmonic Hall, was filled with the 200 tons of machinery required to generate the telharmonium's tunes. With its banks of spinning rotors, switchboards, transformers, and alternators, the behemoth instrument gave "the impression of nothing so much as a busy machine-shop, or the center of a considerable manufacturing industry," according to a 1906 article in McClure's Magazine.
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