Those in turn could be copied via a tube to more cylinders, but with a significant loss in fidelity. Cylinders retained a constant speed for either two or four minutes (depending on how the machine was geared), but until around 1902 or so could not be produced in mass, requiring performers to cut ten or so at a time in a day-long session of dozens of performances of the same piece. However, other inventors sought to improve the acoustical capture and playback properties of phonographs, and by the mid-1890s both Berliner flat discs and Columbia cylinders were being sold to the public with the idea that they could bring great performances into their homes. Edison eschewed the idea that his invention should be used for the reproduction of music. Similar inventors, including Alexander Graham Bell, saw it as a means for capturing telephone conversations or even telegraphy. When Thomas Edison first invented what would become known as the phonograph, his intention was that it would be an ideal instrument for dictation and the capture of oration.
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