![]() ![]() Another improvement came in 1887, when Emile Berliner, a German immigrant to the US, began using flat discs to record sound. The groove is engraved horizontally as the needle moves from left to right on the plate. Soon Edison, as well as Tainter and Bell, started to invest in cylindric music records with mostly popular songs. In 1886 Charles Sumner Tainter and Chichester Bell used wax in the place of tin foil and a floating stylus. His invention involved a stylus attached to a diaphragm inscribing the vibrations up and down on a rotating cylinder covered in tin foil. In 1877 Thomas Edison developed a machine that could not only record speech, but also reproduce it. ![]() It transcribed sound onto a blackened glass plate or a blackened paper but it couldn’t be played afterwards. ![]() The first recording machine, the “Phonautograph” was made in 1857, most likely by the Frenchman Edouard-Léon Scott De Martinville (1817-1879). ![]()
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