Word: phonographers
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...Another splendid lesson that comes to her with scouting is the ability to play. She is not one of the girls who goes motoring in the country with the family on Sunday, helps scatter papers and tin cans around, sets the phonograph going and assails the surrounding haunts of Nature with its clamor. She knows how futile canned music can be when one may listen to a lark...
...young perfecter of television, announced that he had arranged with British postal authorities to attempt transmission of visual impressions across the Atlantic on the Government radio system. He added that he and the Columbia Graphophone Co. had succeeded in translating the electrical impulses or television into impressions on a phonograph record, whence they can be retranslated, making sights as well as sounds issue from the most modern version of a "music...
...snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go. The second voice was that of Thomas Alva Edison. The first was really that of one Thomas Chalmers onetime of the Metropolitan Opera Company, but Mr. Edison and his friends pretended that it actually belonged to the phonograph...
...house. Such different personalities will soon again be associated together in the news-conscious public mind, for Schubert will be celebrated this year with a centenary festival similar to Beethoven's of last year. The immediate propulsive force of the movement is the announcement by the Columbia Phonograph Co. of prizes for the best composition completing Schubert's unfinished Symphony No. 8, in B Minor. The awards will be apportioned as follows: One first prize ($750), one second prize ($250) and a third prize (honorable mention) to be awarded to winners in each of the following ten zones...
...Marconi Co. of London last week announced a new creation by Captain Round, one of its engineer-employes. It was a benefit to blindness?a process by which a full-length novel can be recorded on six double-faced, twelve-inch phonograph records. Each record "reads aloud" some 5,000 words, lasting 40 minutes. The blind audience can "turn back" should it drop off to sleep during a dull chapter, or should the reading go too swiftly during a delectable passage...