Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aware, if his polish is not sadly at fault, that the art of playing with an infant is to amuse without exciting it; to lull it into a state of somnolence, and, after it is asleep, to walk on tiptoes and refrain from loud talk, from playing the phonograph...
...memorial service was held for William Jennings Bryan, and one of his addresses was heard by phonograph...
...Edward Johnson, Mabel Garrison, Reinald Werrenrath, Frieda Hempel, the instruments of Toscha Seidel, Mischa Levitzki, the New York State Symphony Orchestra. These artists have already been engaged. Mr. Kent will pay them. The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. will do the broadcasting from WEAF and others of its stations. If phonograph companies consent, other artists now bound by contract will sing on Sunday nights, beginning on Oct. 4, stopping...
...profitable have the luxury duties proved which were imposed a year ago that it is reported the Department of Commerce and Industry will advocate new import duties on watches and phonograph records. The profitableness of such duties indicates the spreading field of Japanese consumption and also of manufactures, for the new duties are planned also as a kind of protective tariff...
...Manhattan, the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. demonstrated a "panatrope" and "panchords," announced that both would soon be marketed. The panatrope is a new music-making machine constructed on the principle of radio-telephotography, using vacuum tubes and a photo-electric cell to replace the horn and soundbox of the phonograph. Where the phonograph caught and reproduced, at best, only 50% of the frequencies (sound waves) given forth by an artist or orchestra, it is claimed the panatrope catches and reproduces 90%, eliminating extraneous noises of machinery. The panchord is a film-record, having sound waves fixed upon it photoelectrically, capable...