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Nov 5, 2021 · With the help of images from the Daily Herald Archive, this story explores the process of making gramophone records—one of the earliest platforms for distributing recordings, and the medium that launched a multinational industry.
- Early Sound Recording Devices
- Berliner's Invention of The Gramophone
- The Gramophone Business
- Illegal Competition and The End of The Berliner Company
- Nipper
During the early 1880s a contest developed between Thomas A. Edison and the Volta Laboratory team of Chichester A. Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter . The objective was to transform Edison's 1877 tinfoil phonograph, or talking machine, into an instrument capable of taking its place alongside the typewriter as a business correspondence device. This in...
Emile Berliner had many trials and errors developing the gramophone. Some of them were described by the inventor in a lecture-demonstration he gave at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on May 16, 1888, which was printed in the institute's Journal(vol. 125, no. 60). Very early in his work, Berliner decided upon the disc format coupled with the ...
By the early 1890s, Berliner had already launched the gramophone upon the market. The world's first samples of laterally-cut disc records were issued not in the United States, but in Germany. In 1887 Berliner had obtained patent coverage in both Germany and England for the gramophone. In 1889 he went to Germany to demonstrate his new invention to G...
In 1898 came the first of the illegal competitors attracted by the financial success of Berliner's invention, the Wonder machine and record made by the Standard Talking Machine Company. One of the few existing catalogs of their records, in the Library of Congress's collections, shows that a Wonder record was simply a copy of a Berliner record but w...
Berliner left one other legacy to the record industry. On a trip to London in 1899, Berliner visited the offices of the London branch. There he noticed a painting hanging on the wall of a small dog with cocked head posed in front of Johnson's gramophone machine. The little terrier was listening to his master's voice coming from the horn. It had bee...
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PHONOGRAPH: In the USA the term Phonograph has become a generic term for cylinder and disc machines. GRAMOPHONE: Is used in Europe for flat disc machines. Whereas, Phonograph is exclusively used for any cylinder machine. REPRODUCER: The term used mainly in the USA to discribe the device that makes contact with the record or cylinder.
Gramophone records are an analogue storage medium and are, therefore, subject to noise caused by scratches and improper handling. This paper discusses and empirically analysis various outlier detection algorithms that can be utilized to detect disruptions in audio signals that were caused by physical scratches on a record.
The recording process for making a Graphophone record was different enough from the ones used to make Phonographs or Gramophones that it was patentable, which gave Berliner an entry into the marketplace. And while some contemporary listeners thought his disks sounded worse than cylinders, the disk could more readily be mass-produced.
Gramophone Company Discography. The most complete database of recordings made by the Gramophone Company and its successors derived from lists assembled by the late Dr. Alan Kelly. From its founding in 1897 to 1931 when it merged with erstwhile rival record label Columbia to form EMI, The Gramophone Company was one of the was one largest record ...
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