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Was doing some research and came across this phonograph from across the pond. You can hear music and heat your house. I can not believe it is portable... as per writing, Anyone seen there local gas main in the park. Tom B
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Light your cigar and listen to the tunes. Have fun
Light your cigar and listen to the tunes. Have fun
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It burns me up that one has never actually been seen.. Perhaps the combination of hot music and flames caused them to self destruct.
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Believe it or not, this has been mentioned on the board before!

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... flamephone
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The Flame-O-Phone has evolved into current music on Postmodern Jukebox... hot sax...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZY9_Xr5XPA
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As far as the Flameophone phonograph goes, it was a new kitchen gadget at the time, where you could cook a rotisserie chicken and listen to your favorite music. The same will be said in the future about refrigerators with video monitors on the door and wifi internet... :roll:
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.

"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Actually an enterprising Greek saw one of these, and "Eureka", the Gyro was born... ;)

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Can that develop a refrigerator with a crank phonograph in it??? You Just get home from work, pop a cool one, and crank up some tunes. The wife can pick the color of the refrigerator so it will be a win win :lol: . Tom B
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Page nine of "The Gramophone" from October 1923 reviews the machine.

https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/33605/page/9
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tomb wrote:Can that develop a refrigerator with a crank phonograph in it??? You Just get home from work, pop a cool one, and crank up some tunes. The wife can pick the color of the refrigerator so it will be a win win :lol: . Tom B
No, but there was a company that marketed a refrigerator/freezer with a radio built in. They're very rare now because the radios worked long after the freezers died!
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Mr Grumpy wrote:Page nine of "The Gramophone" from October 1923 reviews the machine.

https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/33605/page/9
A not unfavorable review!

The most interesting part to me was that the maker also sold an attachment which could be fitted to "any" gramophone
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