730986 Tainter Disc Graphophone

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730986 Tainter Disc Graphophone

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Charles Sumner Tainter
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Re: Tainter Disc Graphophone

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An early attempt at a constant-linear-speed disc...

Pity the rest of the description is not shown, as it might better explain how the connection between the arm and the speed control worked (it seems a little unclear from the drawing)...

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Lucius1958 wrote: Wed Feb 16, 2022 10:37 pm An early attempt at a constant-linear-speed disc...

Pity the rest of the description is not shown, as it might better explain how the connection between the arm and the speed control worked (it seems a little unclear from the drawing)...

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I only post the first text page of the patents for brevity’s sake. Simply do a Google Patent Search of the patent number to see the complete patent document.
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