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  2. Phonograph - Wikipedia

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    The first commercial vinylite record was the set of five 12" discs ... Radio and Television News ... The direct-drive turntable was invented by Shuichi ...

  3. Turntablism - Wikipedia

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    The first direct-drive turntable was invented by Shuichi Obata, an engineer at Matsushita (now Panasonic), [11] based in Osaka, Japan. [9] It eliminated belts, and instead employed a motor to directly drive a platter on which a vinyl record rests. [ 12 ]

  4. Charles Francis Jenkins - Wikipedia

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    The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, best known for the annual Emmy Awards, commemorates the contributions of Jenkins to the television industry by naming one of the academy's most prestigious awards after him: the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award is a special engineering honor to an individual whose contributions over time ...

  5. Phonograph cylinder - Wikipedia

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    Phonograph cylinders (also referred to as Edison cylinders after its creator Thomas Edison) are the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound.Commonly known simply as "records" in their heyday (c. 1896–1916), a name which has been passed on to their disc-shaped successor, these hollow cylindrical objects have an audio recording engraved on the outside surface which can ...

  6. Direct-drive turntable - Wikipedia

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    In a direct-drive turntable the motor is located directly under the center of the platter and is connected to the platter directly. It is a significant advancement over older belt-drive turntables for turntablism, since they have a slower start-up time and torque, and are prone to wear-and-tear and breakage, [5] as the belt would break from backspinning or scratching. [6]

  7. Things Boomers Took for Granted That are Obsolete Now

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    Thanks to strict blocking laws approved by the Supreme Court and an FTC ban on 1-900 commercials targeting children, the area code all but disappeared by 2002. Verizon dropped the very last one in ...

  8. History of television - Wikipedia

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    Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a receiver back into an approximation of the original image.

  9. Garrard Engineering and Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    Garrard 401 turntable with SME 3009 tonearm. The Garrard 301 Transcription Turntable was the first transcription turntable that supported all extant commercial playback formats – the 33, 45 and 78 rpm records of the time. The first model was the Garrard 301.