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This article is from the Antique Radios
And Phonographs FAQ, by Hank van Cleef vancleef@netcom with
numerous contributions by others.
24 I just found a phonograph. I can't remember the name. Who made old phonographs anyway?
The phonograph was
invented by Thomas Edison. He let it sit on the shelf for 10
years. His patents covered cylinder records, the original format.
Later Berliner obtained a patent for what we call today the 78.
Its virtue was that the 78 could be mass produced easily.
Victor took up the Berliner patent. Edison stayed with
cylinder records. By 1920 it seems as if every furniture
store would put together a case and generic works and a new
brand was born. Sometimes Edison would sell spare cases so
conversion companies would put together parts from different
sources even in well-known cases. Some common brands:
Edison, Victor, Sonora, Brunswick, Silvertone, Zonophone,
Aeolian, Pathe, Granby, Columbia, Vocalian, Harmonola,
Heinman and others.
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