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Pathé disc recorder?
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:08 am
by wjw
Saw this auction for an item I had yet to see, a Pathé disc recorder. Has anyone here run across a disc for this system?
eBay Item #
180809150492
Re: Pathé disc recorder?
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:14 am
by recordo
screenshot for when the ebay item disappears.
Looks like a normal reproducer to me. Perhaps creative use of the word "recorder" just like Edison's disks are not records, but "re-creations"...
Re: Pathé disc recorder?
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:23 am
by recordo
here's a PDF of the patent number as seen on the recorder/reproducer.
Re: Pathé disc recorder?
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 3:37 pm
by estott
I can't open the file, but I suspect this was one of those gimmicks that used a pregrooved disc instead of a feedscrew mechanism.
Re: Pathé disc recorder?
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:12 pm
by wjw
Recordo, thank you for the patent download. The drawings describe a vertical system, but perhaps the description covers lateral recording too. I think "Voice Recorder" would be a pretty bad moniker for a reproducer especially after the coming of radio.