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The phonograph is a tool developed in 1877 for the mechanised duplication and saving of audio. In its later forms it is also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name since c. 1900). The sound vibration waveforms are saved as equivalent physical deviations of a spiral groove engraved, etched, incised, or impressed in to the surface of a revolving disc or cylinder, called a "record". To recreate the audio, the surface is similarly rotated while a playback stylus traces the groove and it is therefore vibrated because of it, very reproducing the saved sound faintly. In early acoustic phonographs, the stylus vibrated a diaphragm which produced sound waves that have been coupled to the open air through a flaring horn, or directly to the listener's ears through stethoscope-type earphones. In later electric phonographs (also called record players (since 1940s) or, lately, turntables), the movements of the stylus are converted into an analogous electronic signal by the transducer, altered back into audio by the loudspeaker then.
The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. While other inventors got produced devices that can record does sound, Edison's phonograph was the first ever to be able to reproduce the registered sound. His phonograph at first recorded audio onto a tinfoil sheet covered around a spinning cylinder. A stylus responding to appear vibrations produced an and down or hill-and-dale groove in the foil up. Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory made several improvements in the 1880s, like the use of wax-coated cardboard cylinders, and a cutting stylus that moved from side to side in a "zig zag" groove surrounding the record.
Inside the 1890s, Emile Berliner initiated the move from phonograph cylinders to flat discs with a spiral groove running from the periphery to near to the center. Later advancements through the entire years included adjustments to the turntable and its drive system, the stylus or needle, and the equalization and audio systems.
The disc phonograph record was the prominent audio saving format throughout the majority of the 20th century. From the mid-1980s on, phonograph use on a standard record player declined because of the rise of the cassette tape sharply, compact disc and other digital saving formats. Details remain a well liked format for a few audiophiles and DJs. Vinyl records are being used by some DJs and musicians in their concert performances still. Musicians continue steadily to release their recordings on vinyl records. The original recordings of music artists are re-issued on vinyl sometimes.
Usage of terminology is not uniform over the English-speaking world (see below). In newer usage, the playback device is named a "turntable", "record player", or "record changer". When found in conjunction with a mixer within a DJ setup, turntables are often called "decks".
The word phonograph ("sound writing") was produced from the Greek words ???? (phon?, "sound" or "voice") and ????? (graph?, "writing"). The similar related terms gramophone (from the Greek ?????? gramma "notice" and ???? ph?n? "speech") and graphophone have similar main meanings. The origins were already familiar from existing 19th-century words such as picture ("light writing"), telegraph ("distant writing"), and cell phone ("distant sound"). The brand new term may have been inspired by the prevailing words phonographic and phonography, which described something of phonetic shorthand; in 1852 THE BRAND NEW York Times transported an advertisement for "Professor Webster's phonographic class", and in 1859 the brand new York State Teachers Relationship tabled a action to "employ a phonographic recorder" to record its meetings.
Arguably, any device used to record sound or reproduce registered audio could be called a type of "phonograph", but in common practice the expressed phrase has come to signify traditional solutions of sound documenting, including audio-frequency modulations of the physical track or groove.
In the past due 19th and early 20th decades, "Phonograph", "Gramophone", "Graphophone", "Zonophone" and so on were still brands specific to various makers of sometimes completely different (i.e. cylinder and disk) machines; so substantial use was made of the generic term "talking machine", especially in print. "Talking machine" had earlier been used to refer to complicated devices which produced a crude imitation of speech, by simulating the workings of the vocal cords, tongue, and mouth - a potential way to obtain confusion both and now then.
In British British, "gramophone" may make reference to any sound-reproducing machine using disc records, which were unveiled and popularized in the united kingdom by the Gramophone Company. Originally, "gramophone" was a proprietary trademark of this company and any use of the name by competing makers of disc records was vigorously prosecuted in the courts, but in 1910 an English court decision decreed it had become a generic term; it has been so used in the UK and most Commonwealth countries ever since. The term "phonograph" was usually limited to machines which used cylinder records.
"Gramophone" generally described a wind-up machine. Following the introduction of the softer vinyl fabric documents, 33 1/3-rpm LPs (long-playing records) and 45-rpm "single" or two-song files, and EPs (extended-play recordings), the common name became "record player" or "turntable". Often the home record player was part of a system that included a radio (radiogram) and, later, might also play audiotape cassettes. From about 1960, such something began to be described as a "hi-fi" (high-fidelity, monophonic) or a "stereo" (most systems being stereophonic by the mid-1960s).
In Australian British, "record player" was the word; "turntable" was a more complex term; "gramophone" was restricted to the old mechanised (i.e., wind-up) players; and "phonograph" was used as in British English.
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