phonograph

Also known as turntable, record player, gramophone

thumb|A typical modern component turntable, showing the curved tonearm with a headshell at the end, under which lies the magnetic cartridge and its attached stylus touching down on the grooves of a black record placed on the turntable's platter

AI overview

A phonograph is a device that plays recorded sound by using a needle (stylus) to read grooves in a vinyl record as it spins on a turntable. It matters because it was a foundational technology for music and audio entertainment, allowing people to listen to recorded sound in their homes.

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Vinony's link graph records 2,355 inbound references to phonograph, and connects out to phonograph record, sound recording and reproduction and Volta Laboratory and Bureau.

It sits within the topics 19th-century inventions, American inventions and Audio players.

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Commons category: Phonographs
Commons gallery: Phonograph
time of discovery or invention: 1877-00-00

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Terminology
United States
Australia
Early history
Phonautograph
Paleophone
The early phonographs
Early machines
Introduction of the disc record
Oldest surviving recordings
Improvements at the Volta Laboratory
Volta's early challenge
Volta Graphophone
Graphophone commercialization
Disc vs. cylinder as a recording medium
Dominance of the disc record
First all-transistor phonograph
Turntable designs
Arm systems
Cue lever
Linear tracking
Optical readout
Stylus
Equalization
Contemporary use and models
See also
Notes
References
Further reading
External links

A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “phonograph” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.