PHONOGRAPHIA

Phonograph Connections for Phonographians

 

Phonographia has two sites that celebrate the Phonograph and its legacy:

Friends of the Phonograph™ and PhonoArt

 

 

The Revolution of Sound

With the completion of the Phonograph on December 6, 1877 the revolution of sound began, culturally and in rpms.

Thomas Alva Edison and his head machinist, John Kruesi, had successfully captured the human voice and played it back on Edison's "Talking Phonograph". (1)

 

What are Phonographia?

Phonographia are objects and images that contribute to our memory of the Phonograph.

Phonographia are found in art, advertisements, literature, photographs, movies, greeting cards, postcards, cartoons and other popular culture formats.

Each example of Phonographia is a connection in a myriad of time-line moments and stories that connect with the Phonograph.

Dreams of Long Ago, Norman Rockwell, cover of Saturday Evening Post, August 13, 1927

 

Who are Phonographians?

Phonographians are Friends of the Phonograph who enjoy all connections to the Phonograph.

 

The Phonograph Lives!

The revolution that began with the Phonograph is a continuum.

We still have record players and also descendent technologies that record and reproduce sound waves.

We have recorded sound from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

And we have a physical phonograph record (the "Golden Record") still travelling with the Voyager spacecrafts into interstellar space. Go to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) website to read about the "Golden Record" and see real-time numbers of how far Voyagers 1 and 2 currently are from Earth.

 

Remember the Phonograph!

Next time you hear recorded sound remember the Phonograph. It's a Revolution still turning!™

 

Click here for "Memories of the Phonograph" and other stories

 

 

 

 

Make Someone Happy - Wind a Phonograph

 

 

References:

(1) "The Talking Phonograph", Scientific American, December 22, 1877.

 

 

 

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