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The phonograph is a tool invented 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 audio vibration waveforms are noted as corresponding physical deviations of an spiral groove imprinted, etched, incised, or impressed in to the surface of any rotating cylinder or disc, called a "record". To recreate the sound, the surface is likewise rotated while a playback stylus traces the groove which is therefore vibrated by it, very faintly reproducing the noted audio. In early acoustic phonographs, the stylus vibrated a diaphragm which produced sound waves which were coupled to the open air via a flaring horn, or right to the listener's ears through stethoscope-type earphones. In later electric phonographs (also known as record players (since 1940s) or, most recently, turntables), the motions of the stylus are converted into an analogous electrical power signal by the transducer, turned back into audio with a loudspeaker then.

The phonograph was developed in 1877 by Thomas Edison. While other inventors possessed produced devices which could record noises, Edison's phonograph was the first ever to be able to reproduce the noted audio. His phonograph formerly recorded sound onto a tinfoil sheet covered around a rotating cylinder. A stylus responding 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 around the record.

In the 1890s, Emile Berliner initiated the transition from phonograph cylinders to flat discs with a spiral groove running from the periphery to nearby the center. Later advancements over time included improvements to the turntable and its own drive system, the stylus or needle, and the equalization and sound systems.

The disc phonograph record was the prominent audio saving format throughout most of the 20th century. From your 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. Documents are a well liked format for some audiophiles and DJs still. Vinyl records are used by some DJs and musicians in their concert performances still. Musicians continue to release their recordings on vinyl records. The original recordings of musicians are re-issued on vinyl fabric sometimes.

Usage of terminology is not even over the English-speaking world (see below). In more modern usage, the playback device is named a "turntable", "record player", or "record changer". When found in conjunction with a mixing machine within a DJ installation, turntables tend to be called "decks".

The word 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 "notice" and ???? ph?n? "tone") and graphophone have similar main meanings. The root base were already familiar from existing 19th-century words such as picture ("light writing"), telegraph ("distant writing"), and phone ("distant sound"). The new term may have been inspired by the existing words phonographic and phonography, which referred to a system of phonetic shorthand; in 1852 The New York Times transported an advertising campaign for "Professor Webster's phonographic class", and in 1859 the New York State Professors Relationship tabled a movement to "hire a phonographic recorder" to record its meetings.

Arguably, any device used to record sound or reproduce recorded sound could be called a kind of "phonograph", but in common practice the portrayed term has come to suggest historic systems of audio recording, relating audio-frequency modulations of any physical groove or trace.

In the overdue 19th and early on 20th generations, "Phonograph", "Gramophone", "Graphophone", "Zonophone" and so on were still brands specific to various manufacturers of sometimes very different (i.e. cylinder and disk) machines; so considerable use was made of the universal 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 mouth - a potential source of misunderstanding both and today then.

In British English, "gramophone" may refer to any sound-reproducing machine using disk records, which were presented 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, but in 1910 an English court decision decreed it had become a generic term; it's 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 described a wind-up machine. Following the benefits of the softer vinyl fabric documents, 33 1/3-rpm LPs (long-playing records) and 45-rpm "single" or two-song documents, and EPs (extended-play recordings), the normal name became "record player" or "turntable". Usually the home record player was part of something that included a radio (radiogram) and, later, may 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 term; "turntable" was a far more specialized term; "gramophone" was limited to the old mechanised (i.e., wind-up) players; and "phonograph" was used such as British English.