Victor's Tapered Tone Arm: "On This Day in History..."

[phonogfp]

"On This Day in Phonographic History..."

 

March13, 1906: Eldridge Johnson was granted a U.S. patent (No.814,786) for a tapering tone arm. The acoustic improvement over the short-lived “Rigid Arm” (introduced in October 1902) was noticeable, and the ingenious goose-neck sound box tube would distinguish Victor’s products for decades to come.

 

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[Neilvanstem]

In case one has never seen a rigid arm here is mine from my Victor Monarch.