When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Phonograph - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph

    A phonograph, later called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910), ... The phonautograph was invented on March 25, ...

  3. Berliner Gramophone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Gramophone

    Berliner Gramophone – its discs identified with an etched-in "E. Berliner's Gramophone" as the logo – was the first (and for nearly ten years the only) disc record label in the world. Its records were played on Emile Berliner 's invention, the Gramophone, which competed with the wax cylinder–playing phonographs that were more common in ...

  4. Emile Berliner - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Berliner

    Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929) originally Emil Berliner, was a German-American inventor.He is best known for inventing the lateral-cut flat disc record (called a "gramophone record" in British and American English) used with a gramophone.

  5. Phonograph record - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_record

    Three vinyl records of different formats, from left to right: a 12 inch LP, a 10 inch LP, a 7 inch single. A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English) or a vinyl record (for later varieties only) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

  6. Gramophone Company - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramophone_Company

    The Gramophone Company Limited was a British phonograph manufacturer and record label, founded in April 1898 by Emil Berliner. It was one of the earliest record ...

  7. Unusual types of gramophone records - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_types_of...

    The first discs by Berliner Gramophone were black, and that has been the standard color for gramophone records ever since. But as early as 1899, the Vitaphone Talking Machine Co. made records that were brownish-red in color.

  8. Graphophone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphophone

    In 1885, when the Volta Laboratory Associates were sure that they had a number of practical inventions, they filed patent applications and began to seek out investors. The Volta Graphophone Company of Alexandria, Virginia, was created on January 6, 1886, and incorporated on February 3, 1886.

  9. History of sound recording - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sound_recording

    The phonograph, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877, ... The wax cylinder got a competitor with the advent of the Gramophone, which was patented by Emile Berliner in ...