The Graphophone was the name and trademark of an improved version of the phonograph. It was invented at the Volta Laboratory established by Alexander...
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Columbia Graphophone Co. Ltd. was one of the earliest gramophone companies in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1917 as an offshoot of the American Columbia...
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Volta Laboratory and Bureau (redirect from Volta Graphophone Company)
Graphophone Company through a share exchange with the Volta Graphophone Company. Bell used the considerable profits from the sale of his Graphophone shares...
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Phonograph (section Volta Graphophone)
Laboratory made several improvements in the 1880s and introduced the graphophone, including the use of wax-coated cardboard cylinders and a cutting stylus...
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America under the name CBS Records to avoid confusion with EMI's Columbia Graphophone Company. Columbia is one of Sony Music's four flagship record labels:...
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in the 1920s as a jazz record label. On 5 October 1926, the Columbia Graphophone Company acquired Parlophone's business, name, logo, and release library...
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significant improvements to Thomas Edison's phonograph, resulting in the Graphophone, one version of which was the first Dictaphone. Later in his career Tainter...
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Entertainment. In 1931, the UK's Gramophone Company merged with Columbia Graphophone to form EMI; EMI would then own the His Master's Voice (HMV) chain of...
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Volta associates established the American Graphophone Company for the manufacturing and sale of Graphophones, and Edison organized the Edison Phonograph...
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cousin of Alexander Graham Bell and was instrumental in developing the graphophone. Bell was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1848 to Professor David Charles...
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oversaw EMI's various labels, including The Gramophone Co. Ltd., Columbia Graphophone Company, and Parlophone Co. Ltd. The global success that EMI enjoyed...
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Columbia Graphophone Company. Introduced in 1907, Grafonolas are internal horn alternatives to the same company's external horn Disc Graphophones. Until...
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States Marine Band, conducted by Sousa's concertmaster, was made on Graphophone cylinder for the fledgling Columbia Records company in Washington, D...
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The House of the Rising Sun (category Columbia Graphophone Company singles)
"The House of the Rising Sun" is an American traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a person's life gone wrong in the...
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Bell and his associates set up the Volta Graphophone Company, which later merged with the American Graphophone Company (founded in 1887) which itself later...
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the nascent graphophone, which was then being marketed by the American Graphophone Company, based in Washington, D.C. American Graphophone's technology...
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relations with the British Columbia Graphophone Company (an EMI subsidiary), so the licensee for the British Columbia Graphophone Company was actually Toshiba...
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An X-ray image of Graphophone needles driven into the flesh by a psychiatric patient....
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surface Phonautogram (1857) Grooved cylinder Phonograph cylinder (1877) Graphophone/Dictaphone cylinder (1887) Perfected phonograph/Ediphone (1888) Salon...
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The Shadows (category Columbia Graphophone Company artists)
The Shadows (originally known as the Drifters between 1958 and 1959) were an English instrumental rock group, who dominated the British popular music charts...
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1910 as Nipponophone Co., Ltd. It affiliated itself with the Columbia Graphophone Company of the United Kingdom and adopted the standard UK Columbia trademarks...
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Pink Floyd (category Columbia Graphophone Company artists)
Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic groups, they were distinguished...
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can be heard at the Smithsonian Institution, as extracted from an 1881 graphophone recording. The following are some of the more prominent of the 93 publications...
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surface Phonautogram (1857) Grooved cylinder Phonograph cylinder (1877) Graphophone/Dictaphone cylinder (1887) Perfected phonograph/Ediphone (1888) Salon...
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surface Phonautogram (1857) Grooved cylinder Phonograph cylinder (1877) Graphophone/Dictaphone cylinder (1887) Perfected phonograph/Ediphone (1888) Salon...
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process. In the pre-LP era she recorded singles for Polydor, Columbia Graphophone and Decca. The following titles are compilations of Piaf's songs and...
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The Yardbirds (category Columbia Graphophone Company artists)
The Yardbirds are an English rock band formed in London in 1963. The band started the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton (1963–1965)...
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Cliff Richard (category Columbia Graphophone Company artists)
Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is a British singer and actor. He has total sales of over 21.5 million singles in the United...
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Victor's British affiliate the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company to form EMI. This gave RCA head David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI...
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Simon Napier-Bell produced the album, which was released by the Columbia Graphophone Company in the UK on 15 July 1966 and by Epic Records in the US on 18...
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