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From Wikipedia
A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound.
The sound vibration waveforms are recorded as corresponding physical deviations of a helical or spiral groove engraved, etched, incised, or impressed into the surface of a rotating cylinder or disc, called a record. To recreate the sound, the surface is similarly rotated while a playback stylus traces the groove and is therefore vibrated by it, faintly reproducing the recorded sound. In early acoustic phonographs, the stylus vibrated a diaphragm that produced sound waves coupled to the open air through a flaring horn, or directly to the listener's ears through stethoscope-type earphones.
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Sources & credits
- Kolessa Phonograph Cylinder 44 by Folklore material – Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
- Kolessa Phonograph Cylinder 35 by Folklore material – Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
- Kolessa Phonograph Cylinder 61 by Folklore material – Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
- Kolessa Phonograph Cylinder 02 by Folklore material – Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
- Kolessa Phonograph Cylinder 24 by Folklore material – Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q116434 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Phonograph – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Image by Levin C. Handy (per http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.04326 ) – Public domain