Previous Page: Thomas Alva Edison had developed a talking apparatus a type of cylinder like tube, which could record and reproduce sound back in 1877. By using indentations embossed into a sheet of tinfoil with an attached vibrating stylus to a diaphragm. Several concepts that he derived directly from his experiments, such as lines of magnetic force, have become common ideas in modern physics. His scientific work laid the foundations for all subsequent electro-technology. Edison's home cylinder phonographic player and its close technological relatives and corporate rivals, the Bell-Tainter Graphophone along with the Berliner gramophone. The Thomas Edison home cylinder phonograph along with the Bell-Tainter Graphophone and Emil Berliner 's Gramophone systems stood the test of time for several decades as the dominant modern innovations in sound reproduction of their time. Emil Berliner, the inventor of the gramophone was the first inventor to introduce the flat disc to the public similar to the vinyl records we are acquainted with today. He also put into practice using electroforming to make negatives of the master disc, which could be served as moulds to make further copies of the same tunes as what's on the original recordings: this principle is no doubt still evidently in use today. |
