who founded the american graphophone company
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Introduction In 1886, Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter founded the American Graphophone Company to distribute and sell graphophones in the US and Canada under license from the Volta Graphophone Company. In 1890, the American Graphophone Company stopped production of new phonographs due to sagging orders.
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Elias Howe Company The Elias Howe Company was a 19th and early 20th century musical firm located in Boston, USA and founded by Elias Howe, Jr. (1820–1895).[1] His company was successful, selling more than a million copies of his music instruction books by 1892.[2] Howe was cousin to the inventor of the sewing machine and related to Julia Ward Howe, composer of the The ...
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- Shavers, the leader of an all-star group for Keynote Records from October, 1944, was obviously inspired by his company, which included Coleman Hawkins on tenor sax and Teddy Wilson on piano, all of whom turn in fine solos. Wilson would record the tune again with his own group the next month with Shavers.
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The Columbia Graphophone and Grafonola -- a beginner's guide For many of the years we are interested in the American Graphophone Company, with factories in Bridgeport, Connecticut, was the manufacturing arm of the enterprise, and the Columbia Phonograph Company was the sales and distribution arm. The Columbia Phonograph Company, General was a sort of holding company.
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Edison Companies Edison Business Phonograph Company. This company was incorporated in New Jersey on January 17, 1908, as the successor to the Commercial Department of the National Phonograph Company, to promote the marketing of Edison's business phonographs, later known as the Ediphone.his company was incorporated in New Jersey on March 29, 1907, to sell phonographs, records, kinetoscopes, films, and other Edison products. It maintained a branch office in Buenos Aires. The company was dissolved on April 16, 1920.
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Lysander Spooner and the United States Postal Monopoly THE AMERICAN LETTER MAIL COMPANY In 1844 Lysander Spooner created the American Letter Mail Company. He set up the service to run between New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, in direct competition with Post Office routes.
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Singer Corporation Singer Corporation. Singer Corporation is an American manufacturer of sewing machines, first established as I. M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac Merritt Singer with New York lawyer Edward Clark. Best known for its sewing machines, it was renamed Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865, then The Singer Company in 1963.
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- The Player Piano Group was founded in 1959 by Frank Holland, who also founded the Musical Museum, to bring together all those interested in these instruments. The Player Piano Group was founded in 1959 by Frank Holland, who also founded the Musical Museum, to bring together all those interested in these instruments. Skip navigation Sign in
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The Virtual Gramophone Canadian Historical Sound Recordings A group of men, licenced by the American Graphophone Company to sell graphophones in Washington, D.C., established the Columbia Phonograph Company. Also licenced by the North American Phonograph Company to sell phonographs in the same area.
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- Franz Hermele Clock Company History The Hermle clock company, like many of the well-known American clock companies, such as Durfee, E. Howard, Seth Thomas, Ingraham, Kroeber, and E.N. Welch owed its existence to one clockmaker who had the desire to build quality clocks, Franz Hermle.
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Edison Companies This company was incorporated in New Jersey on April 25, 1903, to obtain and hold the phonograph-related patents of Edison and other inventors. In 1911 the company's property rights were transferred to Thomas A. Edison, Inc., in exchange for stock in that corporation.his company was established as a partnership in 1911 with Edison, Jonas W. Aylsworth, and Frank L. Dyer as the partners. It manufactured halogen products, including chlorinated naphthalene and chlorinated phenol, for sale to Thomas A. Edison, Inc., and allied Edison companies.
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- The first turntable as we know it arrived in 1895, when German-born American immigrant Emile Berliner introduced a commercial version of a record player he had been developing for seven years. Utilizing a flat disc instead of a cylinder, the gramophone, as it was called, garnered wide public acclaim.
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Xylophone The Manufacturing Process. 1  Construction of a xylophone begins with a design drawing. 2  Rosewood for the keys is purchased in bulk. 3  Aluminum tubular resonators are made from tubing purchased from a metal fabricator.  The frame is constructed as a separate operation while the keys and tubes are being cut and tuned.
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Edwin F. Kalmus History. Founded 1926 by Edwin F. Kalmus (1893–1989) in New York as Edwin F. Kalmus Orchestra Scores, a music store which served as retail agent for a number of European and American publishers.
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Phonograph cylinder The phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison on July 18, 1877. His first successful recording and reproduction of intelligible sounds, achieved early in the following December, used a thin sheet of tin foil wrapped around a hand-cranked grooved metal cylinder. standard system was decided upon by Edison Records, Columbia Phonograph, and other companies in the late 1880s. The standard cylinders are about 4 inches (10 cm) long, 2¼ inches in diameter, and play about two minutes of music or other sound.
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Corning Inc. Selective yellow Noviol glass version shown. Corning Glass Works was founded in 1851 by Amory Houghton, in Somerville, Massachusetts, originally as the Bay State Glass Co. It later moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, and operated as the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works. The company moved again to its ultimate home and namesake, the city of Corning, New York, in 1868 under leadership of the founder's son, Amory Houghton, Jr.
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- A History of the Gramophone Record Courtesy of www.45rpm.org.uk The first records were on cylinders, the earliest of which were made by the inventor of the first 'Phonograph', Thomas Alva Edison in 1877.Attempts had been made of 'recording' sound much earlier than this, but none were capable of reproducing the human voice.ourtesy of www.45rpm.org.uk. The first records were on cylinders, the earliest of which were made by the inventor of the first 'Phonograph', Thomas Alva Edison in 1877. Attempts had been made of 'recording' sound much earlier than this, but none were capable of reproducing the human voice.
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- History: 1893 the American Graphophone Company was aquired, and the name Graphophone was given to all instruments, cylinder or disc, sold by Columbia.
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- And I said, 'One day I'm going to make one, as soon as I have the time and the glass.' . Forty years after that first encounter, Finkenbeiner is adding a chapter to the odd saga of Franklin's instrument. Over the last decade, he has established his Waltham glass factory as the world's foremost source for the glass harmonica, or armonica, as it was originally called.
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Cigar box guitar In the etching, the cigar box fiddle clearly shows the brand ‘Figaro’ on the cigar box. In addition to the etching, plans for a cigar box banjo were published by Daniel Carter Beard, co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America, in 1884 as part of 'Christmas Eve With Uncle Enos'.
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Epiphone Epiphone is an American musical instrument manufacturer founded by Anastasios Stathopoulos, currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. Epiphone is owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and was Gibson's main rival in the archtop market prior to its acquisition in 1957. Their professional archtops, including the Emperor, Deluxe, Broadway and Triumph, rivaled those of Gibson. Aside from guitars, Epiphone also made upright basses, banjos, and other stringed instruments. However, the company's weakness in the aftermath of World War II allowed Gibson to absorb it.
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Staedtler The firm was founded by J.S. Staedtler in 1835 and produces a large variety of writing instruments, including drafting pencils, propelling pencils, professional pens and standard wooden pencils.It also produces plastic erasers, rulers, compasses and other drawing/writing accessories.n 3 October 1835, J.S. Staedtler received permission from the municipal council to produce blacklead, red chalk and pastel pencils in his industrial plant. In 1866, the company had 54 employees and produced 15,000 gross (2,160,000 pencils) per year.
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- Columbia issues grew less in number and major artists moved to other labels. Finally, in late 1923, a rescue operation was called for. New Process, Viva-tonal and Royal Blue. In the fall of 1923, the Columbia Graphophone Company went into receivership, having previously sold its English subsidiary.
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How Record Players Work Evolution of the Record Player. Although Edison temporarily stopped work on his phonograph, interest in recording and playing sound was not abandoned. Ten years after its invention, in 1887, a German inventor in the U.S. named Emile Berliner built on the ideas of Edison's design. Instead of a cylinder with the sound etched in tinfoil or wax, he developed a device that rotated a hard rubber (and later, shellac) disc on a flat plate by the turn of a crank.
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Edison Companies This company was established as a partnership in 1911 with Edison, Jonas W. Aylsworth, and Frank L. Dyer as the partners. It manufactured halogen products, including chlorinated naphthalene and chlorinated phenol, for sale to Thomas A. Edison, Inc., and allied Edison companies.his company was incorporated in New Jersey on March 29, 1907, to sell phonographs, records, kinetoscopes, films, and other Edison products. It maintained a branch office in Buenos Aires. The company was dissolved on April 16, 1920.
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- Sears, Roebuck & Co. Cover of Sears Catalog, 1898. The business that would become Chicago's leading company and America's leading retailer for much of the twentieth century was founded in 1893 by Richard W. Sears. In 1887, Sears moved his watch-selling business from Minneapolis to Chicago and hired watchmaker Alvah C. Roebuck to assist him.