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Thomas Edison was called "The Wizard of Menlo Park" because of his invention of the phonograph and many other pioneering technologies.

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Why was thomas Edison called sorcerer?

Thomas Edison was sometimes called a "sorcerer" due to his ability to invent and innovate in the field of electrical power and lighting. His groundbreaking inventions, such as the electric light bulb and the phonograph, seemed like magical feats to people at the time, earning him the nickname.


What year were gramophones invented?

The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. It used cylinder records. In 1887, Emile Berliner initiated the transition from phonograph cylinders to flat discs with a spiral groove running from the periphery to near the center. He called his invention the gramophone to bypass Edison's "phonograph" Trademark.


What did thomas Edison and William dickson invent?

Thomas Edison invented the first practical incandescent light bulb and the phonograph. William Dickson, a collaborator of Edison, is known for inventing the first motion picture camera, called the Kinetograph, along with the Kinetoscope for viewing motion pictures.


What were the first moving pictures called?

people loved them


Did Thomas Edison invent the gramophone?

The answer is yes...and no. Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the first machine which could record sound and play it back. He called this device a 'phongraph', which essentially means sound writing. The phonograph, though a bit of a sensation at the time, was never commercially produced on any large scale, and remained a parlor trick when Edison basically abandoned it when he began work on his electric light. In the meantime, other inventors, namely Alexander Graham Bell and others, began working on their own improved versions of the device. Bell's group (later known as Columbia) called their device a 'graphophone' (not particularly original, wouldn't you say? Rather than Edison's tinfoil wrapped cylinder, they used a wax cylinder to record. Much better, sound could actually be reliably reproduced, but it still had it's drawbacks. One of those was the need to individually record each cylinder, there was originally no method for mass producing them. Around this time, Edison returned to the field with his 'improved phonograph', using the same wax technology of his competitors. Finally, an inventor named Emile Berliner devised what he called the 'gram-o-phone'. The gramophone used flat disc shaped records of a shellac material. More durable, and with one bi advantage: the records could be stamped out in large volume. So short answer is that Edison first demonstrated the recording of sound, but Berliner's later machine has much more in common with what became the standard record player

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Did Thomas Edison invent the record player?

Yes, he did, but he called it the phonograph.


What state did thomas edison invent the phonograph?

In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in a t his Menlo Park lab in New Jersey. The phonograph was also called a gramophone. Edison made most of his inventions at this lab.


What was the name of the Thomas Edison animation viewing machine called?

The answer is phonograph it was developed by a phonautograph.


Why was thomas Edison called sorcerer?

Thomas Edison was sometimes called a "sorcerer" due to his ability to invent and innovate in the field of electrical power and lighting. His groundbreaking inventions, such as the electric light bulb and the phonograph, seemed like magical feats to people at the time, earning him the nickname.


How can you use the word phonograph in a sentence?

It is rare to see a phonograph now. A phonograph is also called a gramophone. A modern equivalent of a phonograph would be a CD player.


What year were gramophones invented?

The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. It used cylinder records. In 1887, Emile Berliner initiated the transition from phonograph cylinders to flat discs with a spiral groove running from the periphery to near the center. He called his invention the gramophone to bypass Edison's "phonograph" Trademark.


Where is the photograph for Benjamin Franklin on Time Tangled Island?

It is not a photograph, but a PHONOGRAPH (record player, later called a Victrola or a Gramophone). And it is for its inventor Thomas Edison, not Benjamin Franklin. The phonograph is on top of the building (Treasury) where you arrive in Ancient Greece (328 BC). Jump on the winged statue to reach the roof. Take the phonograph to Edison in his workshop, located in 1877 AD.


Who named Earvin to magic?

People were calling him Magic because his flashy moves amazed people so much that people called it magic.


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 is a record player called?

A phonograph is commonly called a record player.


What is also called a record player?

A phonograph is commonly called a record player.


What did Edison invent?

Edison invented the lightbulb,battery and allot of other things wellone of them is the phonograph lightbulb, telegragh, motion pictures, and stuff Well, Thomas Alva Edison invented a lot of things! Here are some: the light bulb, electric light, the photograph, the phonograph, and (I think this is what it's called) the megaphone.