jueves, 6 de mayo de 2010

Film History
Phonograph

An important invention developed by Edison in Menlo Park was the phonograph. working to improve the efficiency of a telegraph transmitter, he note that the tape of the machine gave off a noise resembling spoken words when played at a high speed. This cause him to wonder if he could record a telephone message. He began experimenting with the diaphragm of a telephone receiver by attachin a needle to it. He reasoned that the needle could prick paper tape to record a message.
The machine had two needles: one for recording and one for playback. When you spoke into the mouthpiece, the sound vibratios of your voice would be indente into the cylinder by the recording needle. This cylinder phonograph was the first machine that could record and reproduce sound created a sensation and brought Edison international fame.

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  1. antonella y found a really important detail about the time The phonograph, record player, or gramophone was the most common device for playing sound recordings from the late 1870s until the late 1980s.

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