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An advertisement for Edison New Standard Phonograph, 1898 An advertisement for the Columbia Grafonola. This is a list of phonograph manufacturers.The phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone, record player or turntable, is a device introduced in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.
The World Record Controller was an attachment for ordinary record players that slowed the turntable down when playing the outside of the record and allowed it to gradually speed up as the needle was carried inward by the groove. Of course, only special World records could be used. The World system was a commercial failure.
The first commercially successful type of electrical phonograph pickup was introduced in 1925. Although electromagnetic, its resemblance to later magnetic cartridges is remote: it employed a bulky horseshoe magnet and used the same single-use steel needles which had been standard since the first mechanical transfer disc record players appeared in the 1890s.
Gaulish is an extinct Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire.In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine).
A tape transport is the collection of parts of a magnetic tape player or recorder that move the tape and play or record it. Transport parts include the head, capstan, pinch roller, tape pins, and tape guide. The tape transport as a whole is called the transport mechanism.
Luxor Empire radiogram from 1948. Typical for the 78 rpm era, the record player is a changer, designed to be loaded with a stack of shellac records. Braun Table Radiogram, Model SK5, c 1962. In British English, a radiogram is a piece of furniture that combined a radio and record player. [1] The word radiogram is a portmanteau of radio and ...
A headshell is a head piece designed to be attached to the end of a turntable's or record player's tonearm, which holds the cartridge. [1] Standard catridges are secured to the headshell by a couple of 2.5 mm bolts spaced 1/2" apart. Older, non-metric cartridges used #2 (3/32") bolts. [2]
In 1907, brothers Christian and Joseph Steidinger began manufacturing clockwork and gramophone parts in the Black Forest town of St. Georgen. In 1927, Gebrüder Steidinger (Steidinger Bros.) created the Dual-Motor, consisting of a spring loaded clock work and an electric motor. It proved successful and the company adopted the name Dual in 1935.