What is Indestructible Records?
{{Orphan|date=December 2010}} {{Infobox record label | name = Indestructible Records | parent = Federal Record Corporation | founded = 1906<br /> Defunct 1922/1925 | founder = William Messer | status = Defunct | distributor = Indestructible (cylinders)<br /> Federal/Emerson (discs) | genre = Variety (classical, popular, etc.) | country = United States | location = [[Albany, New York]] | url = [No official link] }} The '''Indestructible Record Company''' was started in 1906 by William Messer, who used to work for Thomas Lambert, the inventor of plastic cylinder records. They started making 4-minute cylinders (with 200 grooves in an inch instead of 100) in 1909. In the 1910s they started dubbing cylinder masters from disc masters made by [[Columbia Records|Columbia]], and also from Federal Record Corporation disc masters—also done by [[Thomas Alva Edison|Edison]] (with his {{color|blue|'''Blue Amberols'''}}) starting in 1915. They used Federal masters after Federal was launched in 1919 by Indestructible. In the fall of 1922, there was a large factory fire that shut down all cylinder production permanently. Production of Federal discs was stopped for a while, but masters were still recorded on and off, and Federal was bought by Emerson Records in 1925. Emerson still survives today as a [[radio]] maker. [[Category:1922 disestablishments]] [[Category:1900s establishments in New York (state)]] [[Category:Albany, New York]] [[Category:American record labels]] [[Category:Radio]] [[Category:1907 establishments in the United States]] [[Category:1920s disestablishments in New York (state)]]