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This article out of the November 1929 Popular Mechanics
decribes this "new Phonograph alarm". I was wondering
if anybody has one or knows that they existed.

Yes, there was one on ebay not all that long ago. They are a Peter Pan gramophone.

http://www.carters.com.au/index.cfm/ite ... 30-wind-u/

Hi

Shane is right, Guido from holland had one for sale. I don't think it sold.

Regards Marcel

They are very cool but, $$$$. They also came in different colors......I want one!!!!!

Have only seen it in Fabrizio & Paul's book...


A forerunner of the Bose "Wave-radio" ?

It's not a phonograph, but I saw a great alarm clock in the clock collection at the British Museum last November: a watch is hooked up to a flintlock pistol. When it goes off, the flash of the flintlock lights a candle - and voila! you're very awake, you've got light, the neighbors are calling the police, and your curtains are on fire. All in one easy application! Of course, there's no snooze button...

Nat wrote:It's not a phonograph, but I saw a great alarm clock in the clock collection at the British Museum last November: a watch is hooked up to a flintlock pistol. When it goes off, the flash of the flintlock lights a candle - and voila! you're very awake, you've got light, the neighbors are calling the police, and your curtains are on fire. All in one easy application! Of course, there's no snooze button...

Here's an earlier phonographic alarm clock, as published in the April 6, 1907 issue of the Scientific American. The following month, The Edison Phonograph Monthly reprinted the photo and article verbatim.

George P.