Berliner toy gramophone, German
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| Berliner toy gramophone, German | |
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| Manufacturer | Kammer and Reinhardt |
| Production years | 1890 |
| Production location | Walterhausen |
Emile Berliner demonstrated his invention of the gramophone in America in 1888. The following year he visited Germany to demonstrate it. Here the instrument made its first commercial appearance as a plaything, manufactured by the toy-making firm of Kammer and Reinhardt of Walterhausen.
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Thomas Edison is credited with creating the first device for recording and playing back sounds in 1877 this system was improved by Emil Berliner in 1887 to produce the gramophone, which is also a purely mechanical device using a needle and diaphragm. The gramophone's major improvement was the use of flat records with a spiral groove, making mass production of the records easy. The modern record player works the same way, but the signals read by the needle are amplified electronically rather than directly vibrating a mechanical diaphragm.
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[edit] In the Science Museum's Records
Inv. No: 1915-391 Source: T H Court