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A gramophone is a device for playing recorded sound that uses a stylus to read grooves on a rotating disc, converting them back into audible music or speech. It was an important early technology for recording and reproducing sound, making music and other audio content accessible to people in their homes for the first time.
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- phonograph
- Country of origin
- United States
- Image
- VictorVPhonograph.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Emile Berliner
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Gramophones
- inception
- 1887-00-00
- Commons gallery
- Phonograph
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “gramophone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.