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The phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison on 18 July 1877. His first test using tin foil wrapped around a hand-cranked cylinder.[1] Tin foil was not a practical recording medium for everyday use and commercial production. Within a few years Edison developed wax cylinders licensed by Charles Sumner Tainter, Alexander Graham Bell, and Chichester Bell, as the American Graphophone Co. - Later absorbed by the Columbia phonograph Co.
By the 1880s wax cylinders were mass marketed. These had sound recordings in the grooves on the outside of hollow cylinders of wax. These cylinders could easily be removed and replaced on the mandrel of the machine which played them. Early cylinder records would commonly wear out after they were played a few hundred times. The buyer could then use a mechanism which left their surface shaved smooth so new recordings could be made on them. In 1890 Charles Tainter patented the use of hard carnauba wax as a replacement for the common mixture of paraffin and beeswax used on phonograph cylinders.
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Who invented the record player?
In 1877, Thomas Edison (1847-1931) invented the phonograph, which originally used cylinders of metal or wax. The first true "record player" using disks was the "gramophone" patented by German-American inventor Emile Berliner in 1888.
What was the original vinyl record made of?
The original vinyl record was made of vinyl. The original phonographic recording was made by Thomas A. Edison on a wax cylinder.
How do you tell how a Thomas Eddison record is?
Thomas Edison devised a way of inscribing sound vebrations on a wax cylinder about the size and shape of a modern toilet paper roll form (not the paper, just the cardboard). The sound was recorded by wiggles in groves of the wax cylinder as a needle passed over the spinning cylinder. JCF
What is the difference between a phonograph record and a phonograph?
a phonograph record is the vinyl (or shellac on glass or hard wax) disk or cylinder containing a sound recording.a phonograph is the machine for playing phonograph records.
What was the first ever music player?
This depends on what you call a music player. In the 9th century the Banū Mūsā brothers invented a hydropowered organ which could play cylinders with raised pins, much like the cylinders found in music boxes. Many other instruments using similar cylinders have been invented since, as well as instruments like the player piano which plays from cards with holes punched in them. These instuments could play music automatically, but not arbitrary sounds. The first recording (with playback) was the phonograph, invented by thomas Edison, which would record by cutting the waveform into wax cylinders that could later be played back, just like a vinyl record player, but on wax cylinders. This device was invented in 1877 and patented in 1878.
When was skateboard wax invented?
the first wax was a candle
Who invented paraffin wax?
James young invented paraffin
What year was ski wax invented?
1692
Who invented car wax?
a man named thomas funferta invented car wax. He was a German car studier and was born on the 4th of may 1974.
What was the first light bulb he invented?
one with wax
Who invented the toilet wax ring?
William Harvey
What material did Thomas Edison record sound on?
Wax cylinders.
