"On This Day...(March 22)"

Discussions on Talking Machines & Accessories
Post Reply
User avatar
phonogfp
Victor Monarch Special
Posts: 7915
Joined: Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:08 pm
Personal Text: "If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will." - A. Lincoln
Location: New York's Finger Lakes

"On This Day...(March 22)"

Post by phonogfp »

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

March 22, 1898: Eldridge Johnson received a U.S. patent (No.601,198) for a “Gramophone and Actuating Device Therefore.” This device became the Berliner Improved Gramophone, selling over 30,000 units, and part of the world’s best-known trademark: “His Master’s Voice.”

March 22, 1907: John C. English filed for a U.S. Design Patent (eventually granted as No. 38,537) for “Cabinet for Talking Machines.” This would be marketed as the VTLA (Victrola) by the Victor Talking Machine Company.

#antiquephonographsociety #phonograph #gramophone #antique
Johnson Trademark Machine 1 601198.png
englishvtla001.jpg
Top
Post Reply

Return to “Machines”