Edison Recorders

Edison Recorders The recorder of the acoustic phonograph was the device that carried the audio signal to the record surface. It was basically a diaphragm with a stylus embedded in it, the whole fitted with a speaking tube or recording horn. In the pioneer days, the recorder was set into a spectacle carrier, which also held the reproducer. Such was the form seen in the New Phonograph produced by Edison in 1887. Nomenclature was less than lucid: the recorder was identified in some advertising as…