The basic distinction between the Edison's first phonograph patent, and the Bell and Tainter patent of 1886 was the method of recording.

The doll was chosen for its tonal contrast and its ability to withstand the intense lights needed in early television and was placed on a rotating phonograph turntable and televised for about two hours each day.

In the early 20th century, the company commissioned a play-on-words song called Under the Anheuser Bush, which was recorded by several early phonograph companies.

He was the third son of Harriet Catherine ( née Curran ) and James Patrick Joseph Kelly, a phonograph salesman.

The film was a crude talkie, in that music and words were recorded on phonograph records, to be played along with the film.

A very popular type of system for reproducing music from the 1970s onwards was the integrated music centre which combined phonograph, radio tuner, tape player, preamp and power amplifier in one package, often sold with its own separate, detachable or integrated speakers.

The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison.

While other inventors had produced devices that could record sounds, Edison's phonograph was the first to be able to reproduce the recorded sound.

The term " phonograph " was usually restricted to devices playing cylinder records.

In American English, " phonograph ", properly specific to machines made by Edison, was sometimes used in a generic sense as early as the 1890s to include cylinder-playing machines made by others, but it was then considered strictly incorrect to apply it to the upstart Gramophone, a very different machine which played discs.

" Talking machine " was the comprehensive generic term, but in the early 20th Century the general public was increasingly applying the word " phonograph " indiscriminately to both cylinder and disc machines and to the records they played.

By the time of the First World War, the mass advertising and popularity of the Victor Talking Machine Company's Victrolas ( a line of disc-playing machines characterized by their concealed horns ) was leading to widespread generic use of the word " victrola " for any machine that played discs, which were however still called " phonograph records " or simply " records ", almost never " victrola records ".

In Australian English, " record player " was the term ; " turntable " was a more technical term ; " gramophone " was restricted to the old mechanical ( i. e., wind-up ) players ; and " phonograph " was used as in British English.

He announced his invention of the first phonograph, a device for recording and replaying sound, on November 21, 1877 ( early reports appear in Scientific American and several newspapers in the beginning of November, and an even earlier announcement of Edison working on a ' talking-machine ' can be found in the Chicago Daily Tribune on May 9 ), and he demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29 ( it was patented on February 19, 1878 as US Patent 200, 521 ).

" The machine thus spoke for itself, and made known the fact that it was the phonograph ..."

This jukebox-like phonograph was invented by Louis T. Glass and William S. Arnold.

Recording with his tinfoil phonograph was too difficult to be practical, as the tinfoil tore easily, and even when the stylus was properly adjusted, its reproduction of sound was distorted and squeaky, and good for only a few playbacks ; nevertheless Edison had hit upon the secret of sound recording.

According to Sumner Tainter, it was through Gardiner Green Hubbard that Bell took up the phonograph challenge.

In 1879 Hubbard got Bell interested in improving the phonograph, and it was agreed that a laboratory should be set up in Washington.

I am a Graphophone and my mother was a phonograph.

* Charles Cros ' letter describing his phonograph

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

* A phonograph, the first device for recording and replaying sound.

* 1904 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder.

* 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

Some anthropologists started collecting recordings ( at first especially of Native American folklore ) on phonograph cylinders in the late 19th century.

Several inventors devised machines to record sound prior to Thomas Edison's phonograph, Edison being the first to produce a device that could both record and reproduce sound.

In May 1889, the first " phonograph parlor " opened in San Francisco.

Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeater and his other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention that first gained him notice was the phonograph in 1877.

His first phonograph recorded on tinfoil around a grooved cylinder, but had poor sound quality and the recordings could be played only a few times.

* November 21 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound, considered Edison's first great invention.

* The first commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings occurred.

DAT was not the first digital audio tape ; pulse-code modulation ( PCM ) was used in Japan by Denon in 1972 for the mastering and production of analogue phonograph records, using a 2-inch Quadruplex-format videotape recorder for its transport, but this was not developed into a consumer product.

* Audio quality: phonograph discs, Vitaphone's in particular, had superior dynamic range to most sound-on-film processes of the day, at least during the first few playings ; while sound-on-film tended to have better frequency response, this was outweighed by greater distortion and noise

In 1890, Louis Glass and William S. Arnold invented the nickel-in-the-slot phonograph, the first of which was an Edison Class M Electric Phonograph retrofitted with a device patented under the name of Coin Actuated Attachment for Phonograph.

Before Cros had a chance to follow up on this idea or attempt to construct a working model, Thomas Alva Edison introduced his first working phonograph in the USA.

Edison used a cylinder covered in tinfoil for his first phonograph, patenting this method for reproducing sound on January 15, 1878.

" Before his death at age 83 in 1931, the prolific inventor amassed a record 1, 093 patents for creations including the phonograph, a stock ticker, the motion-picture camera, the incandescent lightbulb, a mechanical vote counter, the alkaline storage battery including one for an electric car, and the first commercial electric light.

The Czech Philharmonic's first phonograph recording dates from 1929, when Václav Talich recorded the Smetana ´ s My Country for His Master's Voice.

In 1898, three years after Nipper ’ s death, Francis Barraud, his owner and brother of his first owner, painted a picture of Nipper listening intently to a wind-up Edison-Bell cylinder phonograph.

It was there that Sweatman made his first recordings on phonograph cylinders in 1903 for the Metropolitan Music Store.