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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 ...
[ editor's note: According to Moogk in Roll Back the Years (1974), "Meanwhile, the sales of portable gramophones, first promoted during the war years, rose to new heights in 1926...Mason & Risch of Toronto was Canadian representative for the Pixie Grippa, which was available to the retailer for $13."]
They made little money until someone had the bright idea to make a coin-operated phonograph for public amusement. By supplying ready-made cylinders, they transformed the device into an entertainment technology.
Oct 13, 2017 · Mikiphone Pocket Phonograph (1926), a miniature gramophone that, when folded in the circular aluminum case is a little over 4 inches in diameter. It was designed to resemble a large pocket...
- Allison Meier
Nov 4, 2019 · On November 8, 1887, Emile Berliner, a German immigrant working in Washington D.C., patented a successful system for sound recording. Berliner was the first inventor to stop recording on cylinders and start recording on flat disks or records. The first records were made of glass.
- Mary Bellis
The gramophone was first sold in Germany, by a toy manufacturer, the records were made from chocolate. In the USA, Berliner joined forces with ELDRIDGE JOHNSON who introduced a reliable spring motor. Due to legal problems, Berliner was forced to move to Canada and started the Berliner Gram-O-Phone Company
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Washington Post, "Berliner, Not Edison is Inventor of the Microphone, Book Declares." 1926 December 19. Washington Post, "Berliner Will Provides For Health Education," 1929 August 8. Washington Post, "Contest Develops Over Berliner Will," 1929 September 11. Washington Post, "Emile Berliner," 1929 August 4.
