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the creation of the patiphone
a jewish inventor called emil berliner invented a new technology for playing records that is called today the "patiphone" -
Production of the gramophone
Commercial production of gramophones starting in 1893. They were initially a kind of toy that included a mechanical mechanism with a handle and a direct and simple transmission that rotated the record manually. -
the gramphone company
Emil Berliner founded the American gramophone company, which had subsidiaries around the world, which became the name of his company for generic name in many countries. In December 1898, Emil Berliner and his brother Josef Berliner founded the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft in their native Hannover -
the compatition for the lead
Berliner's gramophone competed for many years with Thomas Edison's phonograph. Mass production and reproduction of flat records for the gramophone was significantly more efficient than the production of cylinders for the phonograph. As time went by, the record grew on the cylinder until Edison was forced to produce his own flat records in 1913. To this day, flat disks are used to store information (along or without a spiral) in a variety of media characterized by direct access, -
Upgrading the gramophone
Starting in the middle of the 20th century, an electric motor was integrated into the spin of the record, an arm with a needle that tracks the record slots, an amplifier to amplify the electrical signals and a loudspeaker for the sound. Such devices were manufactured and sold in the form of a suitcase that contained all the components. Other versions of the device do not have a built-in amplification system and depend on the connection to an external amplification system. -
The descent and rise of the gramophone
In the 1980s, with the development of the CDs, the horns of the vinyl records, along with the gramophone instruments, gradually decreased. But in the 2000s the gramophone returned and took its place as an estimated means of playback. Many companies produce high-quality turntables that cost thousands of shekels. The gramophone is intended, among other things, for a growing audience of music lovers who prefer to hear the authentic and unique sound emanating from the records,