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title: "What year was Gramophone invented and how?"  
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# What year was Gramophone invented and how?

What year was Gramophone invented and how?\
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## Answers

### Answer by Harshal Vispute

A **phonograph**, sometimes known as a **gramophone** or, since the **1940s**, as a **[record](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49720/which-singer-of-india-has-got-honor-to-be-listed-in-guinness-book-of-world-record)** pla**y**er, is a device that records and **reproduces sound mechanically** and **analog**. \
The sound wave patterns are captured as physical distortions of spiral grooves **engraved**, **etched**, **carved**, or impressed into the surface of a revolving **cylinder** or **disc**, which is referred to as a '**[record](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49720/which-singer-of-india-has-got-honor-to-be-listed-in-guinness-book-of-world-record)**.' To replicate the sound, the surface is rotated in the same way, while a playback stylus traces the groove and is thus vibrated by it, emulating the recorded sound very weakly. \
The stylus vibrated a diaphragm in early acoustic phonographs, producing sound waves that were either connected to the outside air via a flaring horn or directly to the listener's ears using **stethoscope**-**style earphones**. \
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**Thomas Edison** invented the **phonograph** in **1877**. The **graphophone** was invented in the **1880s** by **Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory**, which used wax-coated paper cylinders and a cutting blade that moved from side to side in a diagonal groove around the disc. \
**Emile Berliner** pioneered the switch from **gramophone cylinders** to **flattened discs** with a helical groove running from the perimeter to near the center in the **1890s**, coining the word '**gramophone**' for disc vinyl records, which are still popular today. Changes to the turntable and its motor system, the stylus or needle, the pickup framework, and the sound and equalization systems were made over time.


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