vinyl records are still made to this day.
Vinyl records, as opposed to shellac records for example, are made out of polyvinyl chloride, commonly abbreviated as PVC. A thermoplastic polymer, PVC is used in a variety of common products, from water pipes and flooring to fetish wear.
Assuming you're talking about records and not gas or something else...yes. Long Play (LP) albums were made of vinyl, but so were the 45s in their last years. Earlier records were made of a harder plastic. "Vinyl" refers to anything that goes round and round on a turntable and is read by a needle.
Vinyl records are called such because of the material Lp's (33 1/3 RPM) and 45's RPM records are made out of. Before the creation of Lp's in 1948, most records were pressed with shellac and more properly called gramophone records.
The first music CD's were made available for purchase in October 1982. I believe they were first sold in Japan by Sony. =) === ===
Vinyl Records were made in way back in 1888-1889
Vinyl records were produced long before 8 track tapes were made.
vinyl records are still made to this day.
Usually vinyl, some recycled vinyl does appear in some cheaper records, but sometimes virgin vinyl is available.
Two of the things that are made out of vinyl are records and shower curtains. It is also stated that Walter Semon made Golf balls and shoe heels that were made out of vinyl.
Two of the things that are made out of vinyl are records and shower curtains. It is also stated that Walter Semon made golf balls and shoe heels that were made out of vinyl.
Vinyl records, as opposed to shellac records for example, are made out of polyvinyl chloride, commonly abbreviated as PVC. A thermoplastic polymer, PVC is used in a variety of common products, from water pipes and flooring to fetish wear.
Storage boxes made for vinyl records can be purchased through The Container Store, Bags Unlimited, IKEA and Amazon. Storage boxes made of vinyl can also be found at IKEA.
Assuming you're talking about records and not gas or something else...yes. Long Play (LP) albums were made of vinyl, but so were the 45s in their last years. Earlier records were made of a harder plastic. "Vinyl" refers to anything that goes round and round on a turntable and is read by a needle.
Vinyl records are called such because of the material Lp's (33 1/3 RPM) and 45's RPM records are made out of. Before the creation of Lp's in 1948, most records were pressed with shellac and more properly called gramophone records.
The large holes in 7 inch vinyl records shows that they were used in jukeboxes.
Cassette tape, 8-track tapes, reel to reel tapes, vinyl LP's and 45's, wire recorders, shellac and resin records, wax cylinder, and books. In computers a 3.5 inch diskette was used, it had a 1.44Mb capacity. It was known as a floppy disk and a 'stiffie' in Australia. Before 3.5 floppies there 6.25 floppies (that were soft and bent very easily), before the 6.25 were 12" disks also called floppies (just large versions of the 6.25"), before that there was reel-to-real and casset tape storage, before that there were keypunch cards, before that there were manual switches and vacuum tubes. And finally, before that was the abacus and the difference engine, and before that was the human brain.