Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Talking Machines and Records: A Handbook for All Who Use Them, Illustrated With Examples of Different Types of Instruments, With Full Instructions for Making a Simple Phonograph, and the Production of "Blanks" And Records
HE Phonograph and Gramophone are now so well known as not to call for any detailed description of their appearance; but as many are not so conversant with the mode in which they act, either with regard to their power of recording or that of afterwards reproducing sound, we give in the following pages sufficient information to enable anyone to form an intelligent conception of the acoustic principles which govern the phenomena, and which enable the talking machine to make a memorandum or record of any sound, be it noise or music, speech or howl, emitted within its range and then from this record to reproduce, at the will of the operator, the sounds thereon originally im pressed. We follow this up by a brief historical outline of the work of different experimenters, which has culminated in the Phonograph as we now know it, with its perfected mechanical devices. We also give directions for making a simple but efficient form, giving due prominence to the different types of recorders, records, and reproducers, as well as to the more delicate and noiseless forms of mechanism adapted to imparting the necessary motion to the records. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
