Phonograph Collection

His Master's Voice, 1899. Creator: Barraud, Francis (1856-1924)
His Master's Voice, 1899. Private Collection

Night, 1918. Artist: Max Beckmann
Night, 1918. From the collection of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany

La Bataille de la Somme; La prise de la Maisonnette: les Senegalais autour d'un phonographe, 1916 Creator: Unknown
La Bataille de la Somme; La prise de la Maisonnette: les Senegalais autour d'un phonographe pris dans une tranchee allemande de la Maisonnette, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

Thomas A. Edison, 1878. Creator: Unknown
Thomas A. Edison, 1878. Edison, Thomas A. between 1865 and 1880. [Inventor and businessman Thomas Edison on the right, with his phonograph, 1878]

Thomas Edison, 1878. Creator: Unknown
Edison, Thomas, between 1870 and 1880. [Inventor and businessman Thomas Edison with his phonograph]

Mr. Edisons new Phonograph-Mr. Edison in his Laboratory receiving the first Phonograph from Englan Creator: Unknown
Mr.Edisons new Phonograph-Mr. Edison in his Laboratory receiving the first Phonograph from England, 1888. From, The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume38. July to December, 1888

Thomas Alva Edison, 1890. Creator: Abraham Archibald Anderson
Thomas Alva Edison, 1890

Thomas Alva Edison, c1910s. Creator: Unknown
Thomas Alva Edison, c1910s. Portrait of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931). Edison was a prolific inventor who registered over 1000 patents

Thomas Alva Edison sitting beside his invention, the phonograph, 1878. Dubbed The Wizard of Menlo Park by a newspaper reporter

A lady pianist at the first Emil Berliner studio in London, Cockburn Hotel, 1898. Artist: Anonymous
A lady pianist at the first Emil Berliner studio in London, Cockburn Hotel, 1898. Found in the collection of Emil Berliner Studios

Thomas Edison, American inventor, c1878 (1956). Edison (1847-1931) aged thirty-one, with an early model of his phonograph

Reproducing Speech, 1878. Artist: C A Keetels
Reproducing Speech, 1878. Demonstration of the Edison phonograph in New York. Illustration from Adventures of America, 1857-1900, by John A Kouwenhoven, published by Harper & Brothers, (New York)

Phonograph, or gramophone display, 19th century. Artist: Gustave Francois Lasellaz
Phonograph, or gramophone display, 19th century. Private Collection. A print from les Dernieres Merveilles de la Science, by Daniel Bellet

Thomas Alva Edison, 1888
Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, 1888. Edison (1847-1931) listening to a recording on his phonograph. This is an electric model powered by a bichromate cell (left)

Thomas Alva Edisons first Phonograph, 1878 (1915). In this model the cylinder on which the sound was recorded had to be rotated by hand. The instrument is shown in recording mode

Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, c1906
Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, listening to a recording on an electric model of his phonograph powered by a wet battery, c1906

Thomas Alva Edisons kinetographic theatre, c1892. This combined the recording of sound and vision. From a cigarette card published 1915

Thomas Alva Edisons first Phonograph, 1878. In this model the cylinder on which the sound was recorded had to be rotated by hand. Instrument in recording mode

Emile Berliners Gramophone, c1888. Top: Recording stylus and mouthpiece. Bottom: Playing a disc

Mid-19th century Phonautograph, c1880. Vibrations produced in cone traced on lamp blacked cylinder

Mid-19th century Phonautograph, c. 1906
Mid-19th century Phonautograph, c.1906. Plaster of Paris barrel with brass tube at a with hogs bristle attached to trace vibrations produced in AB on lampblacked cylinder C

Mid-19th century Phonautograph, 1872. Tuning fork vibrated by bow or iron rod, and vibration traced on cylinder coated with lampblack

Making a recording with, and listening to, first Edison Phonograph, 1878
First model of Edison Phonograph. Top: Making recording. Bottom: Listening to recording. Paris, April 1878

Advertisement for Edison phonograph cylinder recordings, 1900. From Scientific American. (New York, 1900). Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

First model of Edisons Phonograph c1877 (c1880). In this model the recording cylinder was rotated by hand. The message to be recorded was spoken into the mouthpiece at A

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