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Charles Sumner Tainter war ein amerikanischer Instrumentenbauer, Ingenieur und Erfinder, welcher in Zusammenarbeit mit Alexander Graham Bell und Chichester Alexander Bell signifikante Verbesserungen an dem von Thomas Alva Edison erfundenen Phonographen vornahm und als einer der Väter des Graphophons gilt.
Charles Sumner Tainter (April 25, 1854 – April 20, 1940) was an American scientific instrument maker, engineer and inventor, best known for his collaborations with Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, Alexander's father-in-law Gardiner Hubbard, and for his significant improvements to Thomas Edison's phonograph, resulting in the ...
Charles Sumner Tainter was an American inventor who, with Chichester A. Bell (a cousin of Alexander Graham Bell), greatly improved the phonograph by devising a wax-coated cardboard cylinder and a flexible recording stylus, both superior to the tinfoil surface and rigid stylus then used by Thomas A.
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Bei einem Graphophon, im englischen Graphophone, handelt es sich um eine Weiterentwicklung des von Thomas Alva Edison erfunden Phonographen durch den Chemiker Chichester Alexander Bell und den Ingenieur Charles Sumner Tainter, für welche diese am 4. Mai des Jahres 1886 das Patent zuerkannt bekamen.
Although the graphophone with its long 6-inch wax cylinder never succeeded in the market place, the influence of Charles Sumner Tainter was significant and long lasting. He had been the first to introduce the method of cutting a zig-zag spiral groove in the wax surface of a record to improve sound quality. The helically wound cardboard tube ...
It was invented jointly by Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter on February 19, 1880, at Bell's laboratory at 1325 L Street in Washington, D.C. Both were later to become full associates in the Volta Laboratory Association, created and financed by Bell.
Learn about Charles Tainter, who invented the graphophone, the photophone, and the dictaphone. He worked with Alexander Graham Bell and improved on Thomas Edison's phonograph.
