| In 1886, the Bells and Tainter formed the American Graphophone Co. to manufacture and sell the graphophone. |
| In 1886, Bell and Tainter got a patent on their machine and called it a graphophone. |
| The graphophone was named by reversing the two elements of the word phonograph, and indeed, was very similar to that machine. |
| Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter develop a machine which improves upon the phonograph, and call the new device a graphophone. |
| In 1885 and 1886 respectively, they were granted Canadian and American patents for their machine, which they called a graphophone. |
| The graphophone used incised wax-coated cardboard cylinders instead of Edison's indented tinfoil. |
