First truly low-cost internal horn tabletop model selling for $50 ($900 today)
Discs cost $1.15-$4.25 (soon reduced to $1.35-$2.25)ġ911 - Victor announces the Victrola IX early in the year. 
Only Edison discs could be played on Edison Phonographs. Cabinets were considered less attractive than Victrola. Even at this price, the Victrola is an instant success, producing over 500 machines by year's end.ġ910 - Edison selling internal-horn, table-top playersġ911 - Edison Disc Phonograph unveiled, but not sold until 1912. Victor Talking Machine Company's (founded in 1901)& Columbia records compete with Edison.ġ906 - Victrola Introduced (invented by E.R. 120-150 cylinders could be produced in a dayġ905 - Discs begin to replace cylinders. Concert Phonograph (1899) sold for $125, cylinders cost $4. Each cylinder recorded individually by artist. Talking dolls and coin-slot phonographs.ġ890 - Lippincott falls ill and control of North American Phonograph Company reverts to Edison.ġ894 - Edison declares backruptcy, in part to buy back all rights to his invention.ġ896 - Edison Home Phonograph sold machines for home use Leased machines to businesses for dictationġ890 - Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Company. Lippincott assumed control of American Graphophone Company and purchased (on credit) Edison Phonograph Company, forming the North American Phonograph Company. Patented it as the Graphophone.ġ887 - Edison Phonograph Company formed to market Edison's New Phonograph, Improved Phonograph (1888) and Perfected Phonograph.ġ888 - Businessman Jesse H. Educational purposes such as preserving the explanantions made by a teacher, so that the pupil can refer to them at any moment, and spelling or other lessons placed upon the phonograph for convenience in committing to memory.Ĭonnection with the telephone, so as to make that instrument an auxiliary in the transmission of permanent and invaluable records, instead of being the recipient of momentary and fleeting communication.Įarly-1880s - Novelty wore off for the public and Edison concentrated on the incadescent light bulb.ġ886 - Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter improved Edison's invention with wax instead of foil and a floating stylus. The preservation of languages by exact reproduction of the manner of pronouncing. Clocks that should announce in articulate speech the time for going home, going to meals, etc. The "Family Record"-a registry of sayings, reminiscences, etc., by members of a family in their own voices, and of the last words of dying persons. Phonographic books, which will speak to blind people without effort on their part. Letter writing and all kinds of dictation without the aid of a stenographer. Thomas Edison - 1877 - First sound recording on foil cylinderĮdison's possible uses for the phonographĮver practical and visionary, Edison offered the following possible future uses for the phonograph in North American Review in June 1878:
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