phonograph

An Applet is not the programming equivalent of a phonograph.

I describe how I made a stop motion animation of a phonograph needle in an LP groove using an electron microscope.

People haven't really recorded directly to a groove in a plastic medium since wax phonograph cylinders.

Before the invention of the phonograph, people would bring instruments to parties and play music themselves.

But before that they primarily sold crappy audio equipment--and consumables like batteries and phonograph needles.

Similarly, I'd put a phonograph in a museum, even though it's features have been replaced by other things.

Edison was in his 30's when he invented the light bulb and the phonograph.

True enough, there's also the interesting question of the difference between radio/telegraph/phonograph and television.

You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin.

Writing let us describe music on sheets that you could reproduce by hand at home, but the media of music really started with the wax cylinder, then the phonograph and radio.

What about overhead projectors and phonograph players (I hope that's what they were called)?

The shift in convenience was on the level of shifting from a phonograph to a cassette tape, except that records are more convenient in some situations.

The "rock star" era existed only because, for a few decades, the economics of marketing, stamping out and distributing phonograph records in volume favored bulk sales of a modest number of titles.

Lessig[2], said by composer John Philip Sousa as the technology of the phonograph (and the ability to restrict the use of music through copyright) quickly became widespread: "These talking machines are going to ruin artistic development of music in this country.

An adapter permitted Victor records to be played on an Edison Disc Phonograph, but Edison forbade the sale of an attachment that permitted his records to be played on competitors' machines.