Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Alva Edison, primarily in that the spiral sound-recording lines incised upon the records have a uniform depth and zig-zag laterally, while Mr. Edison has adhered to lines of uniform width going over "hill and dale." A good account of Mr. Edison's first phonograph (1877) is contained in Edison: The Man and His Work by George S. Bryan, lately published (Knopf, $4.00). He had his mechanician mount a metal drum on a shaft with a balance wheel at one end, a crank at the other. On the drum's surface was incised a spiral line. On either...
...liked "No, No, Nanette," there isn't much point in seeing The "Queen High" imitation of it. The music can be had on phonograph records, and the wise cracks, though funny in their setting, aren't pointed enough to repeat at Christmas parties. If you didn't like "No, No, Nanette," you'll be bored by this...
...Radiano". Inventors Fred W. Roehm and Frank W. Adsit of Minneapolis announced the perfection of a device to "revolutionize" the piano business, hard hit lately by radio and phonograph competition. The device was the "radiano", attachable to the sounding board of any piano, and with modifications to violins, banjos, mandolins, to replace the microphone of a radio receiving set. Connected through the "radiano" with a radio's amplifier circuit, the piano or stringed instrument's sounding board would act, it was claimed, as a loud speaker, reproducing broadcasted piano tones with a clarity unattained hitherto; reproducing also...
...addition to the shoes, shirts, suits, and squash racquets donated, there were two desks, a phonograph and a bridge table; Saturday Evening Posts without number, a few score Vanity Fairs, and a landslide of text books completed the collection...
...quite impossible for even a passably busy man or woman to listen to records in phonograph stores, and I know of no place where these records are reviewed save in the booklets of the publishers themselves. There are many very beautiful recordings being made with entire symphonies under the new processes of electrical recording, and some of the work is so fine, that I believe it would be a distinct help to your readers to review the better class of new records...