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In Antiques

How much would a Lumar toy gramophone in box with 5 records cost?

It depends on type, age and condition. I recently bought one with three records (in poor condition) for 18 pounds (UK). It is a clockwork one which is rare, but in poor condit… (MORE)

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In Music

What nursery rhyme was heard on the first demonstration of the gramophone record?

Mary had a little lamb was used to test the Edison phonograph in l877 Thomas Edison, inventor here. curiously early Edison phonos did NOT use electricity but were clockw… (MORE)

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In Technology

What was the Impact of the gramophone?

It allowed all classes to listen to music, as orchestral performances were very expensive. It also allowed more choice of music as they were double sided records. It led to th… (MORE)

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When was the gramophone record invented?

A device used to record sound was invented in 1877 by Thomas Alva Edison - the first generally known machine to record and play back sounds. The first recording medi…um was a foil-covered cylinder which recorded vibrations of sound that were focused by a horn-like device onto a diaphragm; the diaphragm vibrated and transmitted the vibrations to a stylus (needle), which etched a helical groove in the foil surface of the rotating cylinder. The sound could then be played back as a needle went along the groove and reversed the process, making the diaphragm vibrate, reproducing the original sound. The first recording was of Edison himself reciting, "Mary had a little lamb." Charles Sumner Tainter (an associate of Alexander Graham Bell) improved the cylinders by making them out of wax. This cylinder style machine evolved into the "Dictaphone", used mostly by administrators for dictating material to be transcribed into hard-copy text by secretaries. The Dictaphone was still in use in the early 1950's. The first flat, circular record was invented in 1887 by Emile Berliner (1851-1929), a German-born American inventor, who also devised the "gramophone" to play his disks. Berliner's records were originally made of glass, then zinc, and later, hard rubber. He founded Deutsche Grammophon, and Britain's Gramophone Co., Ltd. Thomas Edison attempted to compete with the Berliner Gramaphone by designing a disk type machine of his own which played flat, very thick disks on a machine whose stylus tracked by a mechanical drive rather than being drawn across the surface in the spiral grooves. He was not successful, but his machines are highly collectible today. By 1915, records rotated at a standard 78-rpm (rotations per minute) and were made of shellac, a very fragile substance, making these 10 or 12 inch disks - holding about 4 minutes of sound - readily breakable. The long-playing record (the LP) was invented in 1948 at Columbia Records, was 10 or 12 inches in diameter and played at 33 1/3 rpm. The LP was made from flexible plastic vinyl (vinylite). Using new microgrooves, these records recorded over 20 minutes of sound. In 1949, 7-inch, 45-rpm records were introduced. So: Emil Berliner is considered to be the originator of the sound reproducing tool which has evolved into the modern stylus-equipped record player. Along the way, the "wire recorder" and the magnetic-tape recorder came into being. Contemporary electronic/digital technology has provided the next step in the evolution of sound reproduction. Edison's cylinder and disk, Berliner's disk, and the wire recorder have all reached an evolutionary dead end. (MORE)

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In Inventions

Who invented the gramophone?

Thomas Edison invented his tin-foil phonograph, Edison's phonograph was followed by Alexander Graham Bell's graphophone. In 1887 Emile Berliner invented the gramophone and re… (MORE)

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In Music

What is the most sought after gramophone record?

I cannot say definitively as, with all antique and specialized items, it depends upon how much a collector is prepared to pay but I should think that one of the records made b… (MORE)

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What is better the you phone 5c or 5s?

the 5s because it has better service but it dosent have diffrent colrs just silver gold and black

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In Music

Why was the gramophone invented?

Emile Berliner invented the gramophone in 1887. The gramophone was invented as a marketing ploy to get famous artists to begin recording their material on this new inventi… (MORE)

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In Musical Instruments

How did the Gramophone work?

The gramophone is most commonly known as the record player. It worked by placing the needle on to the groves of the record so that music would play.

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Statistician / Economist formerly employed in various Government Departments in the UK, freelance mathematics and statistics tutor since retiring in 2008, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

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In Math and Arithmetic

What is the answer to 20c plus 5 equals 5c plus 65?

20c + 5 = 5c + 65 Divide through by 5: 4c + 1 = c + 13 Subtract c from both sides: 3c + 1 = 13 Subtract 1 from both sides: 3c = 12 Divide both sides by 3: c = 4