THE GRAMOPHONE AND THE MECHANICAL RECORD- 

 ING AND REPRODUCTION OF MUSICAL SOUNDS." 



[With 2 plates.] 



By LovELL N. Reddie. 



The mechanical recording and reproduction of sounds has already 

 been dealt with in papers read before this society. The talking ma- 

 chine was introduced to the society on May 8, 1878, by Sir William 

 Preece; on the 28th November, 1888, Colonel Gouraud read a paper 



Fig. 1. — Earliest and latest types of gramophone 



entitled " The phonograph ; " and on the 5th of December of the 

 same year Mr. Henry Edwards read a paper on " The graphophone." 

 I do not propose this evening to go over the ground covered by these 

 three papers, which deal with the discovery of the talking machine 



° Reprinted by permission, after revision by the author, from Journal of 

 the Royal Society of Arts, London, No. 2894, Vol, LVI, May 8, 1908, with addi- 

 tional illustrations furnished by Mr. Bmile Berliner. 



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