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The phonograph is a tool developed in 1877 for the mechanical recording and duplication of sound. In its later forms additionally it is called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name since c. 1900). The sound vibration waveforms are registered as equivalent physical deviations of an spiral groove engraved, etched, incised, or impressed into the surface of any spinning disk or cylinder, called a "record". To recreate the audio, the surface is likewise rotated while a playback stylus traces the groove and it is therefore vibrated because of it, very faintly reproducing the recorded audio. In early acoustic phonographs, the stylus vibrated a diaphragm which produced sound waves which were coupled to the open air through a flaring horn, or right to the listener's ears through stethoscope-type earphones. In later electric phonographs (also called record players (since 1940s) or, lately, turntables), the motions of the stylus are changed into an analogous electro-mechanical signal by a transducer, then converted back to sound by way of a loudspeaker.
The phonograph was created in 1877 by Thomas Edison. While other inventors acquired produced devices that can record sounds, Edison's phonograph was the first ever to have the ability to reproduce the documented audio. His phonograph at first recorded audio onto a tinfoil sheet covered around a rotating cylinder. A stylus giving an answer to acoustics vibrations produced an up and down or hill-and-dale groove in the foil. 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.
In the 1890s, Emile Berliner initiated the changeover from phonograph cylinders to chiseled discs with a spiral groove running from the periphery to close to the center. Later advancements through the years included changes to the turntable and its drive system, the stylus or needle, and the equalization and audio systems.
The disc phonograph record was the dominating audio recording format throughout almost all of the 20th century. In the mid-1980s on, phonograph use on a standard record player declined because of the rise of the cassette tape sharply, compact disk and other digital taking formats. Documents remain a well liked format for a few audiophiles and DJs. Vinyl records are still employed by some DJs and musicians in their concert performances. Musicians continue steadily to release their recordings on vinyl records. The initial recordings of music artists are re-issued on vinyl sometimes.
Usage of terminology is not consistent over the English-speaking world (see below). In more modern usage, the playback device is categorised as a "turntable", "record player", or "record changer". When found in conjunction with a mixer as part of a DJ installation, turntables are often called "decks".
The term phonograph ("sound writing") was produced from the Greek words ???? (phon?, "sound" or "voice") and ????? (graph?, "writing"). The similar related conditions gramophone (from the Greek ?????? gramma "letter" and ???? ph?n? "tone of voice") and graphophone have similar main meanings. The origins were already familiar from existing 19th-century words such as photo ("light writing"), telegraph ("distant writing"), and cell phone ("distant sound"). The new term may have been affected by the prevailing words phonographic and phonography, which described something of phonetic shorthand; in 1852 The New York Times taken an advertising campaign for "Professor Webster's phonographic class", and in 1859 the New York State Professors Connection tabled a motion to "employ a phonographic recorder" to record its meetings.
Probably, any device used to track record sound or reproduce documented audio could be called a kind of "phonograph", but in common practice the word has come to mean historical technology of reasonable tracking, involving audio-frequency modulations of a physical groove or trace.
In the late 19th and early on 20th decades, "Phonograph", "Gramophone", "Graphophone", "Zonophone" and so on were still brands specific to various producers of sometimes very different (i.e. cylinder and disc) machines; so substantial use was manufactured from the common term "talking machine", in print especially. "Talking machine" had earlier been used to make reference to complicated devices which produced a crude imitation of speech, by simulating the workings of the vocal cords, tongue, and lips - a potential way to obtain dilemma both and now then.
In British English, "gramophone" may make reference to any sound-reproducing machine using disc records, which were created and popularized in the UK by the Gramophone Company. Originally, "gramophone" was a proprietary trademark of that company and any use of the name by competing makers of disc records was vigorously prosecuted in the courts, however in 1910 an English court decision decreed that it had turn into a generic term; it has been so used in the united kingdom and most Commonwealth countries since. The word "phonograph" was usually limited to machines which used cylinder records.
"Gramophone" generally referred to a wind-up machine. After the release of the softer vinyl fabric data, 33 1/3-rpm LPs (long-playing files) and 45-rpm "single" or two-song data, and EPs (extended-play recordings), the common name became "record player" or "turntable". Usually 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 English, "record player" was the word; "turntable" was a more specialized term; "gramophone" was limited to the old mechanised (i.e., wind-up) players; and "phonograph" was used as in British English.
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