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Gramophone facts for kids

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Gramophone can refer to several things:

  • A type of phonograph, a machine for recording and replaying sound
  • Gramophone record, a disc for storing analogue sound
  • Gramophone (magazine), a British magazine about classical music
  • Gramophone Company, a British record company, existing from 1897 to 1931

Images for kids

  • Edison and phonograph edit1

    Thomas Edison with his second phonograph, photographed by Levin Corbin Handy in Washington, April 1878

  • Edison Standard Photograph (08)

    An Edison Standard Phonograph that uses wax cylinders

  • Early phonograph, Deaf Smith County Museum, Hereford, TX IMG 4857

    Early phonograph at Deaf Smith County Historical Museum in Hereford, Texas

  • Conversatione of the Royal Society of Victoria

    Wood engraving published in The Illustrated Australian News, depicting a public demonstration of new technology at the Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) on 8 August 1878.

  • Phonautograph-cent2

    Dictionary illustration of a phonautograph. This version uses a barrel made of plaster of Paris.

  • PhonographPatentEdison1880

    Patent drawing for Edison's phonograph, May 18, 1880

  • Edison phonograph 1912

    Phonograph cabinet built with Edison cement, 1912. The clockwork portion of the phonograph is concealed in the base beneath the statue; the amplifying horn is the shell behind the human figure.

  • Transcription using cylinder phonograph

    A 'G' (Graham Bell) model Graphophone being played back by a typist after its cylinder had recorded dictation.

  • Graphophone1901

    A later-model Columbia Graphophone of 1901

  • VictorVPhonograph

    A Victor V phonograph, circa 1907

  • Portable 78 rpm record player

    A 1930s portable wind-up gramophone from EMI (His Master's Voice)

  • Philco All-Transistor Phonograph-1955

    Philco all-transistor model TPA-1 phonograph, developed and produced in 1955

  • Philco TPA-1 All-Transistor phonograph - Radio and Television News Oct 1955

    Philco all-transistor model TPA-1 phonograph – Radio and Television News magazine, issue October 1955

  • Technics SL-1200MK2-2

    A Technics SL-1200 turntable

  • NadelAufPlatte

    Typical magnetic cartridge

  • RedDevilNeedle

    Stylus for jukebox using shellac 78 rpm records, 1940s

  • Fonoteca Nacional 02

    A phonograph for record preservation at Fonoteca Nacional (National Sound Archive of Mexico)

See also

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