Walter Pitts and the First Victrola: "On This Day in Phonographic History..."

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"On This Day in Phonographic History..."

 

July 3, 1906: Walter Pitts was granted a U.S. design patent (No. 38,113) for a “Cabinet for Talking Machines.” This would become the first production cabinet used for the Victor-Victrola (the “Pooley cabinet,” termed for the furniture company that first manufactured it).

 

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To my eyes it almost looks like the idea was to incorporate a stylized version of a tabletop Victor set atop a record storage cabinet.