by Val | Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
1900, Spain A decade after the invention and rising popularity of cylinder phonographs, the German-born American inventor Emile Berliner introduced a spiral grove on a flat rotating disc in 1887, and called his invention the gramophone. At the turn of the century,...
by Val | Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
1919, U.S.A. Thomas Edison is credited with the invention of the cylinder phonograph, which used a copper cylinder wrapped in tinfoil to record and reproduce sound. Chichester Bell and other inventors followed Edison and made various improvements to the phonograph:...
by Val | Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
1900, Germany play pause stop mute unmute max volume repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. Among mechanical organs, Welte Orchestrions were the premiere...
by Val | Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
1885, Switzerland The music box originally derived from the mechanism used to sound carillons, or bell chimes, in church clock towers in Switzerland and other countries in the 16th century. Later in the 1830s, the cylinder music box was created as a mechanical musical...
by Val | Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
1904, Germany play pause stop mute unmute max volume repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. The 1880s saw the first disc music boxes that used flat discs. Demand...