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The phonograph is a tool created in 1877 for the mechanised tracking and reproduction 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 recorded as related physical deviations of your spiral groove engraved, etched, incised, or impressed into the surface of an spinning cylinder or disk, called a "record". To recreate the audio, the top is in the same way rotated while a playback stylus traces the groove and is therefore vibrated because of it, very faintly reproducing the saved sound. In early acoustic phonographs, the stylus vibrated a diaphragm which produced sound waves which were coupled to the open air by way of 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 electronic signal with a transducer, transformed back to sound with a loudspeaker then.
The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. While other inventors had produced devices which could record looks, Edison's phonograph was the first to be able to reproduce the registered sound. His phonograph formerly recorded audio onto a tinfoil sheet wrapped around a revolving cylinder. A stylus responding to reasonable vibrations produced an along 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 across the record.
Within the 1890s, Emile Berliner initiated the transition from phonograph cylinders to flat discs with a spiral groove operating from the periphery to close to the center. Later advancements through the years included changes to the turntable and its drive system, the needle or stylus, and the sound and equalization systems.
The disc phonograph record was the prominent audio taking format throughout almost all of the 20th century. From your mid-1980s on, phonograph use on a standard record player declined sharply as a result of rise of the cassette tape, compact disc and other digital tracking formats. Information are a favorite format for some audiophiles and DJs still. Vinyl records are 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 musicians are sometimes re-issued on vinyl.
Using terminology is not homogeneous across the English-speaking world (see below). In more modern usage, the playback device is categorised as a "turntable", "record player", or "record changer". When used in conjunction with a mixer within a DJ set up, turntables tend to be called "decks".
The term phonograph ("sound writing") was derived 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 of voice") 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 brand new term may have been inspired by the prevailing words phonographic and phonography, which described a system of phonetic shorthand; in 1852 THE BRAND NEW York Times taken an ad for "Professor Webster's phonographic class", and in 1859 the brand new York State Educators Connection tabled a action to "employ a phonographic recorder" to track record its meetings.
Probably, any device used to record audio or reproduce noted audio could be called a type of "phonograph", however in common practice the portrayed phrase has come to suggest historical solutions of audio saving, involving audio-frequency modulations of your physical groove or trace.
In the past due 19th and early on 20th generations, "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 appreciable 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 source of confusion both and now then.
In British English, "gramophone" may make reference to any sound-reproducing machine using disk records, which were introduced 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 which it had turn into a generic term; it has been so used in the united kingdom & most Commonwealth countries ever since. The word "phonograph" was usually restricted to machines that used cylinder records.
"Gramophone" generally referred to a wind-up machine. After the benefits of the softer vinyl details, 33 1/3-rpm LPs (long-playing records) and 45-rpm "single" or two-song information, and EPs (extended-play recordings), the common name became "record player" or "turntable". Usually the home record player was part of something that included a radio (radiogram) and, later, might also play audiotape cassettes. From about 1960, such a system began to certainly be a "hi-fi" (high-fidelity, monophonic) or a "stereo" (most systems being stereophonic by the mid-1960s).
In Australian British, "record player" was the term; "turntable" was a far more complex term; "gramophone" was restricted to the old mechanised (i.e., wind-up) players; and "phonograph" was used as with British English.
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