Gramophone Records

Made:: 1897 in England and London

manufacturer:: H.M.V.; H.M.V.

maker:: Berliner Gramophone Co. of America

Gramophone records, made by Berliner Gramophone, London.

The first consumer device to play back recorded sound was the phonograph. It played wax or tinfoil cylinders. The gramophone, developed by the German inventor Emile Berliner in 1888, played flat discs instead of cylinders. This model featured in the trademark of the Gramophone Company and its record label, HMV: a painting of a dog called Nipper sitting next to a gramophone listening to ‘his master’s voice’.

Details

Category:: Sound Reproduction

Object Number:: 1925-461/3

Materials:: shellac

type:: records

credit:: Capt. W.H. France.

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Gramophone Records

Gramophone records. “Dress for Parade”, 7'' inch record, shellac, 1895. "Grand Aria from Il Trovatore", 7'' inch record, shellac, 1899.

The gramophone was thefirst consumer device to play back recorded sound was the phonograph. It played wax or tinfoil cylinders. The gramophone, developed by the German inventor Emile Berliner in 1888, played flat discs instead of cylinders. This model featured in the trademark of the Gramophone Company and its record label, HMV: a painting of a dog called Nipper sitting next to a gramophone listening to ‘his master’s voice’.

Materials:: shellac

Object Number:: 1925-461/3/1

type:: records

Gramophone Records

Gramophone records. “Dress for Parade”, 7'' inch record, shellac, 1895. "Grand Aria from Il Trovatore", 7'' inch record, shellac, 1899.

The gramophone was the first consumer device to play back recorded sound was the phonograph. It played wax or tinfoil cylinders. The gramophone, developed by the German inventor Emile Berliner in 1888, played flat discs instead of cylinders. This model featured in the trademark of the Gramophone Company and its record label, HMV: a painting of a dog called Nipper sitting next to a gramophone listening to ‘his master’s voice’.