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An advertisement for Edison New Standard Phonograph, 1898 An advertisement for the Columbia Grafonola. This is a list of phonograph manufacturers.The phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone, record player or turntable, is a device introduced in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.
Similarly, the terms "gramophone" and "graphophone" have roots in the Greek words γράμμα (gramma, meaning 'letter') and φωνή (phōnē, meaning 'voice'). In British English, "gramophone" may refer to any sound-reproducing machine that utilizes disc records. These were introduced and popularized in the UK by the Gramophone Company.
Beginning in 1896, Berliner's gramophone players were made by Philadelphia-based machinist Eldridge Johnson, who added a spring motor to drive the previously hand-rotated turntable. Berliner also opened an office in New York City, staffed by Frank Seaman and O. D. LaDow and organized as the National Gramophone Company.
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.
Pathé discs were commonly produced in 10 inches (25 cm), 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (27 cm), and 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (29 cm) sizes. 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (17 cm), 8 inches (20 cm), and 14 inches (36 cm) discs were also made, as were very large 20 inches (51 cm) discs that played at 120 rpm. Due to their fragility, unwieldiness, and much higher price ...
1906 – The Victor Talking Machine Company releases the Victrola, the most popular gramophone model until the late 1920s. [80] The Victrola is also the first playback machine containing an internal horn. [81] Victor also erects the world's largest illuminated billboard at the time, on Broadway in New York City, to advertise the company's ...
A Gramophone Company label with the original "Recording Angel" trademark, prior to the use of the His Master's Voice.. The Gramophone Company was founded in April 1898 by William Barry Owen and Edmund Trevor Lloyd Wynne Williams, commissioned by Emil Berliner, in London.
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.