American Graphophone's 1888 wax cylinder graphophone. The machines were marketed for only a few years by American Graphophone and the North American Phonograph Company, but …

The Edison Phonograph Company was formed on October 8, 1887, to market Edison's machine. He introduced the Improved Phonograph by May of 1888, shortly followed by the Perfected …

Thomas Edison had been working on telephone equipment at the time he conceived the phonograph. Alexander Graham Bell announced his telephone in 1876, and many inventors …

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Dec 10, 2024 · Over 400 color photographs and detailed captions describe machines such as the very first Phonograph; over a dozen tinfoil phonographs including spring-driven and weight …

phonophan is the Web site of noted recorded sound historian and much-published author Tim Fabrizio, dedicated to preserving, understanding and purveying antique phonographs, talking …

BELL-TAINTER GRAPHOPHONE TYPE K - 1895 (Bell-Tainter Type K Electric set up with a mandrel for Edison-type cylinders. The records play from right to left.) When Edison invented …

Thomas Edison made the first recording device called the phonophone in 1877. The phonophone recorded sound waves on tinfoil. The tinfoil record did not playback the sound after a few …

It was a direct improvement on Thomas Edison’s phonograph, the first device to successfully record and play-back sound, which he had invented a decade prior in 1877. Edison viewed his …

The Columbia “Type B” Graphophone – commonly called the 'Eagle' – was first sold in September 1897 as an inexpensive yet solidly-built machine for the mass market. Priced at $10 for the …