Quest for Sound: Thomas Edison's Phonograph
Overview
Thomas Edison (1847-1931) has gone down in history as one of the great inventors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He wa...
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Phonograph
Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877 opened up a world of recorded sound and created one of the great entertainment industries. The phonograph made it possible to repr...
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Phonograph
The phonograph, a device that makes audible recorded sounds imprinted within the narrow grooves of phonograph records, is made of several parts: a tone arm, a revolving turntable on which a...
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1. Can you name any or all of the Top 3 single TV shows of all time, based on the Nielsen Media Research?2. Name the longest-running national network series ever.3. What was the best-selling phonog...
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A Moscow court threw out a case against the former head of music downloading site allofmp3.com and rejected the damages claims made by three major recording labels, a music industry official said W...
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Stockholm (dpa) - Four men were charged in Sweden Thursday with
operating a popular internet website that allegedly acts as a hub for
illegal file-sharing.
Th...
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One of the inventions that put this central New Jersey town on the map could go the way of the typewriter and the horse and buggy if some lawmakers have their way.The incandescent light bulb, perfe...
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Music company EMI Group PLC said Friday that it rejected a nonbinding $4.1 billion takeover proposal from Warner Music Group.London-based EMI, which announced last week that it had been approached ...
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The Killers and the Arctic Monkeys, indie rockers from opposite sides of the Atlantic, took two trophies apiece Wednesday at Britain's prestigious music-industry awards, the Brits.Las Vegas natives...
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Several major record labels sued the operator of the Russian music Web site AllofMP3.com on Wednesday, claiming the company has been profiting by selling copies of music without their permission.Th...
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British copyright laws should be extended to prevent aging artists such as Paul McCartney and Cliff Richard from missing out on royalties later in life, an influential committee of British lawmaker...
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British and Dutch police shut down what they say is one the world's biggest online sources of pirated music Tuesday and arrested the Web site's 24-year-old suspected operator.The invitation-only Oi...
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Record companies' revenue from digital music sales rose 40 percent to $2.9 billion over the past year, but the growth is still failing to cover losses from collapse of international CD sales, the m...
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Quest for Sound: Thomas Edison's Phonograph
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