More Than One Way to Skin a Cat
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2026 8:38 am
“On This Day in the History of Recorded Sound…”
January 18, 1908: Edward F. Leeds and George Rumpf filed a U.S. Patent application (later granted as #897,836) for a disc talking machine whose sound box remained stationary while the turntable traversed beneath it. Designed to avoid infringement of Berliner’s U.S. Patent that controlled any talking machine whose needle/stylus was propelled by a record’s groove, the machine was briefly marketed as an Aretino in 1908/09, and bears the distinction of being the first true mechanical feed disc talking machine known to have reached the marketplace. For much more: https://forum.antiquephono.org/topic/66 ... c-history/
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January 18, 1908: Edward F. Leeds and George Rumpf filed a U.S. Patent application (later granted as #897,836) for a disc talking machine whose sound box remained stationary while the turntable traversed beneath it. Designed to avoid infringement of Berliner’s U.S. Patent that controlled any talking machine whose needle/stylus was propelled by a record’s groove, the machine was briefly marketed as an Aretino in 1908/09, and bears the distinction of being the first true mechanical feed disc talking machine known to have reached the marketplace. For much more: https://forum.antiquephono.org/topic/66 ... c-history/
https://www.antiquephono.org/#/