Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter develop a machine which improves upon the phonograph, and call the new device a graphophone. |
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In 1886, Bell and Tainter got a patent on their machine and called it a graphophone. |
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In 1885 and 1886 respectively, they were granted Canadian and American patents for their machine, which they called a graphophone. |
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The graphophone used incised wax-coated cardboard cylinders instead of Edison's indented tinfoil. |
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In 1886, the Bells and Tainter formed the American Graphophone Co. to manufacture and sell the graphophone. |
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The graphophone was named by reversing the two elements of the word phonograph, and indeed, was very similar to that machine. |
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Canadian patent for the graphophone issued. |
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American patents for the graphophone issued. |
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See also graphophone, lateral recording and phonograph. |
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In collaboration with the Library of Congress, Haber's lab has been able to play many old recordings, on objects such as the graphophone and the electroformed disk, for the first time in more than a century. |
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