Created in France in 1998 by Henri Chamoux, the Archeophone is the only modern device capable of playing all formats of wax or celluloid phonograph cylinders as they were produced between 1888 and 1929, and even later. These sound recordings are fragile and quickly deteriorate if played on period devices. The Archeophone, which allows the transcription of cylinders onto CD, is now used by major archives that possess such sound media: Library of Congress, BNF, Edison Museum, as well as other institutions and private collections. You can listen to cylinder recordings in mp3 format on this site, and find numerous information about the history of old recordings. A film available here presents the operation mode of the Archeophone.