Graphophone

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A PIECE OF MUSICAL HISTORY ..."GRAPHOPHONE" ... GELPEN AND COLOURED PENCIL .... 9INCH*7INCH ... 2015 ... The Graphophone was the name and trademark of an improved version of the phonograph. It was invented at the Volta Laboratory established by Alexander Graham Bell in Washington, D.C., United States. Its trademark usage was acquired successively by the Volta Graphophone Company, then the American Graphophone Company, the North American Phonograph Company, and finally by the Columbia Phonograph Company (later to become Columbia Records), all of which either produced or sold Graphophones. It took five years of research under the directorship of Charles Sumner Tainter and Chichester Bell at the Volta Laboratory to develop and distinguish their machine from Thomas Edison's phonograph. The trade name Graphophone was used by the successor of the American Graphophone Company, Columbia Records, as the name for their version of the phonograph. The early machines compatible with E