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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). 1877 - Events. January 1 - Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act, introduced by United Kingdom Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. January 8 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry (Montana) January 20 - Ottoman Turkey rejec ...

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Alessandro Moreschi (November 11, 1858 - April 21, 1922) was one of the most famous castrati singers of the late 19th century, and was the only castrato of the classic bel canto tradition to make sound recordings. He was perhaps the best known castrato of his day after Domenico Mustafa, a former "Direttore Perpetuo" of the Sistine Chapel. Other famous castrati singers at this time were Domenico Salvatori and Giovanni Cesari. Alessandro Moreschi was born to a large Catholic family in the town of Montecompatri. It was sugg ...

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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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1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1900s - Events and Trends. 1900s - Technology. Lawrence Hargrave makes the first stable wing design for a heavier-than-air aircraft Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first documented flight in a powered heavier-than-air aircraft Mass production of automobile Wide popularity of home phonograph Panama Canal is built by the Unit ...

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1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s 1870s - Events and Trends. 1870s - Technology. The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. The light bulb was invented. The phonograph is invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. 1870s - Science. Ludwig Boltzmann's statistical definition of thermodynamic entropy 1870s - War peace and politics. ...

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Methods and media for sound recording are varied and have undergone significant changes between the first time sound was actually recorded for later playback until now. Sound recording - Technology. Sound recording - Mechanical recording. The first devices for recording sound were mechanical in nature. In 1796 a Swiss watchmaker named Antoine Favre described his idea for what we now call the cylinder musical box. This can be considered an early method of recording a melod ...

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Piezoelectricity is the ability of certain crystals to generate a voltage in response to applied mechanical stress. The word is derived from the Greek piezein, which means to squeeze or press. The piezoelectric effect is reversible in that piezoelectric crystals when subjected to an externally applied voltage, can change shape by a small amount. The deformation, about 0.1% of the original dimension in PZT, is of the order of nanometers, but nevertheless finds useful applications such as the production and detection of sound, ge ...

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Jazz is an original American musical art form, originating around the turn of the 20th century, rooted in Western music technique and theory, and is marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans. It is characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. Jazz has been described as "America's Classical Music". Jazz - History. Jazz - Roots of jazz. Jazz has roots in the combination of Western and Afr ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 1878 - Events. 1878 - January - April. January - Cleopatra's Needle arrives in London January 9 - Humbert I becomes King of Italy January 5 - Battle of Shipka Pass IV January 17 - Battle of Plovdiv January 23 - Disraeli orders British fleet to DardanellesIncluding:

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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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A gramophone record, (also vinyl record, phonograph record, LP record, or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. Analogue audio recording onto a disc was the main technology used for the storing of recorded sound for most of the 20th century. The record, in one format or another, was the dominant musical format for 70 years. It overtook the phonograph cylinder in the fi ...

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• Gramophone record - History of the speeds
• Gramophone record - Progress and the War of the Speeds
• Gramophone record - Stereo and beyond
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• Gramophone record - The record mastering and pressing process
• Gramophone record - Recording the disc
• Gramophone record - Mass producing records
• Gramophone record - Packaging and Distribution
• Gramophone record - Record Labels
• Gramophone record - Disc limitations
• Gramophone record - Recording medium comparison
• Gramophone record - Beyond the 1990s: Records versus the digital media
• Gramophone record - Arguments about sound fidelity
• Gramophone record - Disc jockeys
• Gramophone record - Making your own records
• Gramophone record - Studios
• Gramophone record - Personal recording devices
• Gramophone record - Preservation of disc recordings

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In pop music a cover version is a new rendition of a previously recorded song. Pop musicians may play covers as a tribute to the original performer or group, to win audiences who like to hear a familiar song, or to increase their chance of success by using a proven hit or to gain credibility by its comparison with the original song. Covering material is an important method in learning various styles of music. Bands may also perform covers for the simple pleasure of playing a familiar song. Cover version - Early cover ver ...

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Vitaphone was a sound film process used on features and nearly 2,000 short subjects produced by Warner Brothers and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1930. The business was established in the Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn, New York acquired by Warners Bros. in 1925. Many early talkies, such as The Jazz Singer, used the Vitaphone process. Vitaphone was the last, but most successful, of the so-called sound-on-disc processes. With improvements in competing sound-on-film processes, Vitaphone's technical imperfectio ...

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Electricity is a property of matter that results from the presence of electric charge. Together with magnetism, it constitutes the fundamental interaction known as electromagnetism. Electricity is responsible for many well-known physical phenomena such as lightning, electric fields and electric currents, and is put to use in industrial applications such as electronics and electric power. Electricity - Concepts in electricity. In casual usage, the term electricity is applied to several related concept ...

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Male ranges Sopranist Alto Tenor Baritenor Baritone Bass-baritone Bass A castrato is a male soprano, mezzo-soprano, or alto voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or who, because of an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity. Therefore, their voices never deepen. This practice began in the 16th century. Due to Catholicism's traditional ban on females singing in church, castrati were employed as chu ...

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Charles Cros (October 1, 1842 - August 9, 1888) was a French poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude, France. Cros was a well regarded poet and humorous writer. He developed various improved methods of photography including an early color photo process. He also invented improvements in telegraph technology. He is perhaps most famous as the man who almost, but not quite, invented the phonograph. In April 1877 he submitted a paper to the Academy of Sciences in Paris suggesting that the vibrations of sound waves co ...

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There are two main types of phonograph turntables still being manufactured today, the older style belt-drive or newer direct-drive systems; the names are based upon the type of motor system found in each. In a belt drive turntable the motor is located under and to the side of the platter and is connected to the platter by an elastomeric belt. The design of the belt drive turntable uses a less expensive motor than the direct-drive turntable. Also, the elastomeric belt absorbs motor vibrations which would otherwise ...

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A disk or disc (see below) is anything that resembles a flattened cylinder in shape. More specifically: In biology, an intervertebral disc is a cartilaginous joint between vertebrae in the spine of vertebrate animals. In mathematics, a disk is a geometrical object. See Disk (mathematics). A gramophone record (commonly "phonograph record" in U.S. English) is an analogue sound recording disc used on a gramophone or phonograph. It consists of a long spiral groove in on a side of a platt ...

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Quartz is the most abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust. It has a hexagonal crystal structure made of trigonal crystallized silica (silicon dioxide, SiO2), with a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale. Density is 2.65 g/cm³. The typical shape is a six-sided prism that ends in six-sided pyramids, although these are often twinned, distorted, or so massive that only part of the shape is apparent from a mined specimen. Additionally a bed is a common form, particularly for varieties such as amethyst, where the cry ...

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The growth of modern industry from the late 18th Century onward led to massive urbanization in many Western countries and the rise of new great cities in Europe, America, Australia and other regions as economic opportunities brought huge numbers of migrants from rural communities and poor countries to rich cities. This urbanization, combined with increased literacy, improvements in education and public health, and new ...

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