Charles Sumner Tainter (April 25, 1854 - April 20, 1940) was an American engineer and inventor, best known for his collaborations with Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell and his improvements to Thomas Alva Edison's phonograph, resulting in the graphophone, one version of which was the first dictaphone. Tainter was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he went to public school. His education was modest, he acquired his knowledge mostly through self-education. In 1873, he took a job for a company producing telescopes in Cam ...

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Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-American-Canadian scientist and inventor. He was, until recently, widely considered to be the inventor of the telephone, although this matter has become controversial, with a number of people claiming that Antonio Meucci was the 'real' inventor and others holding out for Elisha Gray, the founder of the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. In addition to his work in telecommunications technology, he was responsible for important advances in aviation and hydrofoi ...

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The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s. Phonograph - Terminology. Usage of these terms is somewhat different in American English and British English; see usage note below. In more modern usage, this device is often called a turntable or record player. In the late 19th and early 20th century, the alternative term talking machine was sometimes used. The phonograph was the first device for recording and r ...

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Born Alexander Bell in Edinburgh, he later adopted the middle name Graham out of admiration for Alexander Graham, a family friend. Many called him "the father of the Deaf." His family was associated with the teaching of elocution: his grandfather in London, his uncle in Dublin, and his father, Alexander Melville Bell, in Edinburgh, were all professed elocutionists. The latter has published a variety of works on the subject, several of which are well known, especially his treatise on Visible Speech, which appeared in Edin ...

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Phonograph - Turntable construction. Inexpensive record players typically used a flanged steel stamping for the turntable structure. A rubber disc would be secured to the top of the stamping to provide traction for the record, as well as a small amount of vibration isolation. The spindle bearing usually consisted of a bronze bushing. The flange on the stamping provided a convenient place to drive the turntable by means of an idler wheel (see below). While light and cheap to manufacture, these mechanisms had low inertia ...

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Born Alexander Bell in Edinburgh, Scotland, he later adopted the middle name Graham out of admiration for Alexander Graham, a family friend.Many called him "the father of the Deaf." His family was associated with the teaching of elocution: his grandfather in London, his uncle in Dublin, and his father, Alexander Melville Bell, in Edinburgh, were all professed elocutionists. The latter has published a variety of works on the subject, several of which are well known, especially his treatise on Visible Speech, which appeare ...

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Along with many very prominent thinkers and scientists of the time, Bell was connected with the eugenics movement in the United States. From 1912 until 1918 he was the chairman of the board of scientific advisors to the Eugenics Record Office associated with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, and regularly attended meetings. In 1921 he was the honorary president of the Second International Congress of Eugenics held under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Organizations such as these advocated passing ...

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Berliner's lateral disc record was the ancestor of the 78 rpm, 45 rpm, 33⅓ rpm, and all other analogue disc records popular for use in sound recording through the 20th century. See gramophone record. Christmas 1925 brought improved radio technology and radio sales, bringing many phonograph dealers to financial ruin. With efforts at improved audio fidelity, the big record companies succeeded in keeping business booming through the end of the decade, but the record sales plummeted during the Great Depression, with many companies merging or going ...

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Phonograph, Phonograph - Terminology, Phonograph - History, Phonograph - The phonautograph, Phonograph - Phonograph theory, Phonograph - The first phonograph, Phonograph - British and American and Australian language usage differences, Phonograph - Disc versus cylinder as a recording medium, Phonograph - The dominance of the disc phonograph, Phonograph - Turntable technology, Phonograph - Turntable construction, Phonograph - Turntable drive systems, Phonograph - Pickup systems, Phonograph - Arm systems, Phonograph - Front-loading systems, Phonograph - The phonograph in the 21st century

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Usage of these terms is somewhat different in American English and British English; see usage note below. In more modern usage, this device is often called a turntable or record player. In the late 19th and early 20th century, the alternative term talking machine was sometimes used. The phonograph was the first device for recording and replaying sound. The term phonograph meaning "sound writer", is derived from the Greek words φωνη (meaning sound or voice and transliterated as phone) and γραφ ...

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Phonograph - The phonautograph. The earliest known invention of a phonographic recording device was the phonautograph, invented by Edouard-Leon Scott and patented on March 25, 1857. It could transcribe sound to a visible medium, but had no means to play back the sound after it was recorded. The device consisted of a horn that focused sound waves onto a membrane to which a hog's bristle was attached, causing the bristle to move and enabling it to inscribe a visual medium. Initially, the phonautograph made r ...

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Disc recording is inherently neither better nor worse than cylinder recording in potential audio fidelity. Recordings made on a cylinder remain at a constant linear velocity for the entirety of the recording, while those made on a disc have a higher linear velocity at the outer portion of the groove compared to the inner portion. Edison's patented recording method recorded with vertical ...

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Turntables continue to be manufactured and sold into the 21st century, although in small numbers. Whilst there are many audiophiles who still prefer vinyl records played on record players compared to digital music sources such as compact disc or SACD for their perceived fidelity, these represent an enthusiastic minority of listeners. The quality of the available record players, tonearms, and car ...

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In British English "gramophone" came to refer to any sound reproducing machine using disc records, as disc records were popularized in the UK by the Gramophone Company. The term "phonograph" is usually restricted to devices playing cylinder records. The term "gramophone" would generally be taken to refer to a wind-up machine, and from the 1960's onwards the more common term would be "record player" or "stereo" for a complete system (most systems were stereophonic by the mid-1960's), and "turntable" for ...

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Phonograph, Phonograph - Terminology, Phonograph - History, Phonograph - The phonautograph, Phonograph - Phonograph theory, Phonograph - The first phonograph, Phonograph - British and American and Australian language usage differences, Phonograph - Disc versus cylinder as a recording medium, Phonograph - The dominance of the disc phonograph, Phonograph - Turntable technology, Phonograph - Turntable construction, Phonograph - Turntable drive systems, Phonograph - Pickup systems, Phonograph - Arm systems, Phonograph - Front-loading systems, Phonograph - The phonograph in the 21st century

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Berliner's lateral disc record was the ancestor of the 78 rpm, 45 rpm, 33⅓ rpm, and all other analogue disc records popular for use in sound recording through the 20th century. See gramophone record and vinyl record. Christmas 1925 brought improved radio technology and radio sales, bringing many phonograph dealers to financial ruin. With efforts at improved audio fidelity, the big record companies succeeded in keeping business booming through the end of the decade, but the record sales plummeted during the Great Depression, with many companies merging or going ...

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Phonograph, Phonograph - Terminology, Phonograph - History, Phonograph - The phonautograph, Phonograph - Phonograph theory, Phonograph - The first phonograph, Phonograph - British and American and Australian language usage differences, Phonograph - Disc versus cylinder as a recording medium, Phonograph - The dominance of the disc phonograph, Phonograph - Turntable technology, Phonograph - Turntable construction, Phonograph - Turntable drive systems, Phonograph - Pickup systems, Phonograph - Arm systems, Phonograph - Front-loading systems, Phonograph - The phonograph in the 21st century

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