Columbia Record Players

Columbia Record Players The various Columbia firms manufactured a great many models of cylinder and disc players. Cylinder machines, known as Graphophones, are taken up first. All types that have been reported in the literature are listed here. Chichester A. Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter invented the Graphophone in 1885 (patent issued 1886) while at work in the Volta Laboratory in Washington, D.C. It was primarily a dictation machine, differing from the Edison tinfoil phonograph by incising…