It was the first time that sound could be recorded and played back.
Before this invention, for you to be able to hear a sound, it had to be live.
A person speaking, a singer, an orchestra, all had to be there in front of you, before you could hear anything.
Being able to play a sound whenever you wanted, inspired people to get into music, at their leisure. It opened up new possibilites in entertainment and communication.
Before this time, if you had said that you could play back a recorded sound whenever you wanted, you would have been declared as mad, or delusional.
The wax cylinder was invented by Thomas Edison in 1877 as a means of recording sound. The gramophone, which played these recordings, was developed by Emile Berliner in the late 1880s. Berliner’s invention used flat discs instead of cylinders, paving the way for modern record players. Both inventions were pivotal in the evolution of sound recording and playback technology.
The Gramophone Company absorbed the Zonophone company. The Gramophone company's main label was the His Master's Voice dog with its nose into the gramophone horn. When it took over it restyled the label very closely to its HMV one, but changed it away from the HMV image (it was to be the down-market range) and came up with a slightly different design.
It is short for grammophone. This is what the actual award is shaped as. Grammophones played music way before records, cds, cassettes etc. existed
Because the awards are for music (and music related categories). Grammy is short for gramophone - an old-style record player.
Berliner Gramophone ended in 1924.
In 1888, Emile Berliner invented the lateral-cut disc records for the phonograph (gramophone). His record label was called "Berliner Gramophone."
The first gramophone was invented by Thomas Edison in the United States in the late 19th century. Edison's phonograph was the first device to play and record sound using a rotating cylinder with indentations.
the first musical gramophone was invented in late Victorian
the first musical gramophone was invented in late Victorian
the first gramophone was made in england in 1934
Record player.
The gramophone was invented by Thomas Edison.
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it was a Gramophone record player that is a smaller version of a record player
One thing that was invented in 1887 was the gramophone. The gramophone was invented by Emile Berliner. Other things she invented include the radial aircraft engine, helicopter and acoustical tiles.
Emil Berliner invented the gramophone, a device used for playing audio recordings. He also developed the lateral-cut disc record, which replaced Thomas Edison's cylinder phonograph as the dominant medium for recorded music.
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877. This device for recording and reproducing sound recordings was also referred to as a gramophone or a record player.