The Phonograph & How To Use It
Thomas Alva Edison conceived the principle of recording and reproducing
sound between May and July 1877 as a byproduct of his efforts to "play back"
recorded telegraph messages and to automate speech sounds for transmission by
telephone. He announced his invention of the first phonograph, a device for
recording and replaying sound, on November 21, 1877, 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 Phonograph & How To Use It is a 184 page book, which was first
published by the National Phonograph Company in 1900 and shows the full line of
Edison machines sold at the turn of the century. There are chapters showing the
rare tinfoil models on the 1870s, as well as the hard-to-find water power type.
Also shown are the battery driven styles of the early 1890s.
You will find such treasures as the Gem, Standard, Home, Spring-Motor and Concert
models. View for yourslf details of cabinets, reproducers, recorders, horns,
batteries, and motors.
Learn all about Edison coin operated phonographs, both spring-wind and electric
types.
We have collected together for your enjoyment this collection of four
vintage titles on a Gift Quality CD.
Titles Include:
:: 1900 The Phonograph & How To Use It ~ 184 pages.
:: 1901 Edison Phonograph Catalog ~ 52 pages.
:: 1905 Talking Machines and Records ~ 107 pages.
:: 1918 How To Get The Most Out of Your Victrola ~ 34 pages.
:: 1924 How To Get The Most Out of Your Victrola ~ 34 pages.
:: 1878 The Phonograph and Its Inventor ~ 22 pages.
The Phonograph & How To Use
It
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Talking Machines and Records
The phonograph and gramophone are now so well known as not to call for any detailed
description of their appearance. But as many are not so conversant with the moe in which they act,
either with regard to their power of recording or that of afterwards reproducing sound, we give in the
following pages sufficient information to enable anyone to form an intelligent conception of the
acoustic principles which govern the phenomena, and which enable the taling machine to make a
memorandum or “record” of any sound, be it noise or music, speech or howl, emitted within its range and
then from this record to reproduce, at the will of the operator, the sounds thereon originally
impressed. We follow this up by a brief historical outline of the work of different experimenters,
which has culminated in the Phonograph as we now know it, with its perfected mechanical devices.
We also give directions for making a simple but efficient form, giving due prominence to the
different types of recorders, records, and reproducers, as well as to the more delicate and noiseless
forms of mechanism adapted to imparting the necessary motion to the records.
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How To Get The Most Out of Your Victrola {1918}
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How To Get The Most Out of Your Victrola {1924}
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The Phonograph and Its
Inventor
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1901 Edison Phonograph Catalog
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