| 1887 |
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| May 4 |
Emile Berliner applies for a US patent on a
‘gramophone’, using a cylinder but changed to a disc by the time the first model is shown
a year later. His principal innovation at this stage is the use of
lateral cutting of the recording groove, as used in Scott's
phonautograph (see at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington)
and later proposed by Charles Cros and Charles Tainter rather than
the vertical ('hill and dale') cutting of Edison's phonograph. |
> 1888 |
| May |
Stereophonic Theatrophone installation is made at the
Theatre Royal (Opera House), Stockholm, Sweden, with a bank of eight receivers at the recently opened
telephone headquarters building. Directors of the telephone company also benefit from the service in
their homes. |
The service continues until the mid 1920s |
| June |
The American Graphophone Company is established in Washington DC, with a manufacturing
plant at Bridgeport, Connecticut, to make graphophones
under the Bell and Tainter patents, which have been sold to a group of capitalists. |
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| July 26 |
First book is published in Esperanto, the international language invented by the
Pole Ludwig Zamenhof. |
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| September 26 |
Berliner's patent for a gramophone is granted (no 372786). |
> 1888 |
| November 26 |
Edison applies for a US patent for an improved phonograph system using wax-coated
cylinders and an electric motor-driven machine (granted as no 386974). |
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| November 11 |
First use of photography for press advertising is for Harrison Patent Knitting Machine Co
of Manchester, England in The Parrot, published in Manchester. |
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Italian W Bennetto patents a ‘system of semi-dialyte separation colour
photography’—later to become a basic principle of Technicolor. |
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Animated photography presentation devised by Ottomar Anschutz uses an aspect
ratio of 3:4 (portrait format). |
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Series of shadow dramas and epopées is started by Henri Rivière at Rudolph
Salis’s Chat Noir cabaret in Paris. |
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Heinrich Rudolph Hertz describes the photoemissive effect of ultra-violet light
on metal electrodes and constructs the first radio antenna during his experiments in radio wave
propagation at Karlsruhe. |
> 1888 |
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Publication of Muybridge’s 12-volume
Animal Locomotion—An electrophotographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal
movements. |
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Jacob L Wortman of Philadelphia patents the typewriter ribbon. |
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