Tag Archives: Phonographs

Chocolate Records

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 190.  The early 20th Century was a time of great innovation in technology, but not all good ideas are born equal.  Sometimes just because you can make something, it doesn’t mean you should.  From one of innovation’s blind alleys, … Continue reading →

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Revolutionary Tech, 1904

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 186.  An early publication concerning audio technology was The Talking Machine News, a monthly magazine for “users and makers of talking machines”; in other words, phonographs, or what we would now term “record players”.  By 1904, technology was marching … Continue reading →

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The Living Picture

Posted on January 31, 2019 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 184.  An early publication concerning audio technology was The Talking Machine News, a monthly magazine for “users and makers of talking machines”; in other words, phonographs, or what we would now term “record players”.  We previously looked at a … Continue reading →

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Acid Drops, Lemon Drops, Don’t Drops

Posted on November 29, 2018 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 175.  In a previous snippet we looked at a quote from the November 1903 issue of The Talking Machine News, a monthly magazine for “users and makers of talking machines”; in other words, phonographs, or what we would now … Continue reading →

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The Magic Record

Posted on November 15, 2018 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 173.  In 1877 Thomas Edison invented the phonograph.  By 1903, use of phonographs to play music had become so popular that it became viable to publish a monthly title “for users and makers of talking machines”, The Talking Machine … Continue reading →

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