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“On This Day in the History of Recorded Sound…”

December 24, 1877: Thomas A. Edison filed the first U.S. patent application for “Improvement in Phonograph or Speaking Machines.”

December 24, 1902: Eldridge Johnson and William Moore filed for a U.S. patent on the tubular tone arm that had begun appearing on Victor Talking Machines in October 1902. This was the “Rigid Arm,” which removed the weight of the horn and earlier traveling arm from the record.

December 24, 1939: Died: Walter B. Rogers, cornet recording artist and later music director for Victor and Brunswick.

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