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A phonograph, later called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910), and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of recorded sound.
Feb 29, 2020 · The gramophone as the name of the most advanced music player, sound recorder and playback device of 1887 was coined and patented by its inventor to refer to the sound device which plays on flat discs on disc record players, running through the groove out to the periphery instead of the conventional one play cylindrical phonographs which was ...
Phonographs and Gramophones for beginners. This section covers the basics of collecting gramophones and phonographs. A simplified history, How sound is recorded, the terms used and how to spot authentic machines from fake ones.
In 1887, Emil Berliner (1851–1921) invented the gramophone, the mechanical predecessor to the electric record player. Later, with the shellac record, he developed a medium that allowed music...
Then, using an electroplating process, the zinc disk was turned into a stamper that could be used to produce the final recordings in large numbers by pressing the stamper into a ball of semi-solid “Vulcanite,” (a type of rubber) which then hardened. He called it the Gramophone.
In 1898, Emile Berliner and his brother Joseph founded Deutsche Grammophon in Hannover, along with the first record and gramophone manufacturing works.
The Gramophone was born and the floodgates soon opened for a myriad of independent companies from all over the world to try and supply the ever growing demand from the public for gramophones to play their records on.
Soon there were gramophone companies in all the major countries of Europe, including Russia. Berliner's sons Herbert and Edgar opened the Berliner Gramophone Company of Montreal in 1899.
Berliner re-visited Germany in 1889 to demonstrate his invention to a firm of toy makers, there they produced the first machine called a Gramophone. In 1896 an improved clockwork motor was built by a New Jersey engineer Eldridge R Johnson, and in 1898 a London branch of Berliner's business called the Gramophone Company opened at Covent Garden.
