Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well as the U. S. knows John McCormack. The two have much in common: they are both good showmen, both fat men with infectious smiles. Both started in opera, went in later for lieder. Both frankly cater to the people's taste to their own tremendous profit. Their phonograph records are bestsellers. They are not above making sound films or capitalizing on the theme songs...
...have come prepared to spend as before. There has been only a minor decrease in the average standard of living. The storekeepers of Harvard Square are not facing the bleak winter of their colleagues in Boston. For example, one of the music stores reports that its sales of expensive phonograph records is nearly as great as ever, the radio notwithstanding. Men may buy more circumspectly, but still they...
...Among the things he invented, wholly or partly, were: moving pictures, the phonograph, the carbon telephone transmitter, the microphone, the mimeograph, an alkaline storage battery, the incandescent light (his favorite...
Half a century ago, an unknown inventor made a strange machine called the phonograph, and an amazed world of horse-cars and gas-lights heard itself speak. At once, this world acclaimed him the Great Wizard, and through ensuing years it watched with Elizabethan enthusiasm for his magical machines as one after another they emerged from Menlo Park. Either outright or in part, he gave to the seventies the telephone microphone, the phonograph, and the incandescent electric light; to the eighties, the trolley car and the dynamo; and to the 'nineties, the cinema. With the turn of the century...
...method; practice, not theory. No dilettante, he plunged into a project with sleeves rolled, working almost without rest for days and nights together until he made the lamp filament glow, until he made the phonograph talk. "Genius is nine-tenths perspiration," he believed...