The Tainter Treadle-Powered Graphophone: "On This Day in Phonographic History...:

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"On This Day in Phonographic History..."

 

July 7, 1887: Charles Sumner Tainter applied for a U.S. patent for “Apparatus for Recording and Reproducing Speech and Other Sounds.” This was the design that would become the treadle-driven Graphophones, and persist in the upper works of Columbia machines through the mid-1890s.

 

December 27, 1887: Charles Sumner Tainter was granted a U.S. patent (No.375,579) for “Apparatus for Recording and Reproducing Speech and Other Sounds.”

 

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