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November 23: On This Day in World History … briefly
While the number of traditional jukeboxes has declined, digital jukeboxes, also called ‘social jukebox’, have been introduced.
1889: Put another nickel in …
The world’s first jukebox was unveiled in the Palais Royal Saloon, San Francisco, by Louis Glass, General Manager of the Pacific Phonograph Company. It was Mr Glass’s idea to fit coin slots on an electrically-operated Edison phonograph.
For a nickel, four customers can listen to two minutes’ worth of music through listening tubes at the same time, but it had to be the same music because the wax cylinders had to be changed manually.
Most notable historic snippets or facts extracted from the book ‘On This Day’ first published in 1992 by Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, London, as well as additional supplementary information extracted from Wikipedia.
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