A phonograph is a record player it has many names such as the gramophone, record player, and turntable. When users insert a phonograph record, the machine plays music. These disks have various names including gramophone record, record, vinyl, and long play (LP).
In 1857 Edouard-Leon Scott invented the first version of the phonograph he also patented the design that year. His version was able to record sounds, but it wasn’t able to play the sound back. The design was later changed to record sounds on a different type of paper.
The next major evolution to the phonograph was in 1877 by famous inventor, Thomas Edison. His changes allowed the phonograph to play sounds as well as recording them. Thomas Edison created a way for the phonograph to play a recording multiple times. The way he did this was by creating two devices: one that would record the audio and one that would play recordings. The device would record sounds onto a tin foil plate. The second device was the phonograph, which used a different needle to play sounds recorded by the first device. Thomas Edison managed to get a patent for this device on February 19, 1878.
Thomas Edison quit making improvements to this device after the public stopped showing interest in the device. While Thomas Edison lost interest in the machine, development was picked up by another famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, who made further changes. One of his changes replacing the tin plates with wax and creating a floating stylus. The reason for switching the plate’s material was because of the damage the stylus caused to the plate. The floating stylus was also implemented for that reason. He would call his refined phonograph the gramophone.
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