The Aretino Traversing-Turntable Machine: "On This Day in Phonographic History..."

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"On This Day in Phonographic History..."

 

January 18, 1908: Edward F. Leeds and George Rumpf filed a U.S. Patent application (later granted as No.897,836) for a disc talking machine whose sound box remained stationary while the turntable traversed beneath it.  Designed to avoid infringement of Berliner’s U.S. Patent that controlled any talking machine whose needle/stylus was propelled by a record’s groove, the machine was briefly marketed as an Aretino in 1908/09, and bears the distinction of being the first true mechanical feed disc talking machine known to have reached the marketplace.

 

September1, 1908: Edward F. Leeds and George Rumpf were granted U.S. Patent (No.897,836).

 

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Manufactured by Hawthorne & Sheble, the traversing-turntable Aretino was briefly marketed in 1908-1909.  Image from The Talking Machine Compendium by Fabrizio & Paul.  All Rights Reserved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Neilvanstem]

Nice machine. But I only have the records.