
Vinyl Records: Black Magic at Work
Stuff You Should Know
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The Hand Crank Phonograph
In 1887, Edison and Bell are both working on this stuff. Bell has got his wax cylinder going. He played it back on something called a graphophone. You crank that handle, it rotates that wax cylinder and it plays it back through an acoustic trumpet. And then of course later on, the hand crank was replaced with a motor. That was how you listen to music was this guy's invention, the gramophone.
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