THOMAS ALVA EDISON RECORDED LYRICS IN GRAMAPHONE ON 1877 DECEMBER 6

THOMAS ALVA EDISON RECORDED LYRICS 

IN GRAMAPHONE  ON 1877 DECEMBER 6

அமெரிக்காவைச் சேர்ந்த தாமஸ் ஆல்வா எடிசன் (Thomas Alva Edison), 1847ஆம் ஆண்டு பிப்ரவரி 11ல் ஓஹையோ (Ohio) மாநிலத்தில், மிலன் (Milan) என்னும் இடத்தில் பிறந்தார். பத்தாவது வயதில், தன் வீட்டில் சிறிய தொழிற்கூடம் ஒன்றை அமைத்தார். 'மேதைமை என்பது 1 சதவீதம் உந்துதலும், 99 சதவீதம் வியர்வை சிந்துதலும் (உழைப்பு)” என்றார். “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration” என்கிற அவரது சொற்றொடர், பிரபலமானது.
கிராமபோன் (Gramophone): எடிசன் கண்டுபிடித்தவற்றில் முக்கியமானது கிராமபோன். இதை, 1877ல் கண்டுபிடித்தார். 'ஒலியை ஒரு தகடு மீது பதிவு செய்தால், அது சுருக்கெழுத்தாக, தனித்த உருவில் அமையும்' என்ற கோட்பாட்டை இதன் மூலம் நிரூபித்துக் காட்டினார்.

n 1877 Thomas Edison successfully created a device that not only recorded sound, but played it back as well. This is the invention that would come to be known as the phonograph. To record the sound, Edison would speak into a mouthpiece; the vibrations of his voice moved a needle that would indent the tin foil cylinder inside. The original phonograph cylinders held a maximum of 2 minutes of media on them, making them a very short length of time, but very enjoyable. Another factor of the original was the inability to re-record something or re-inscribe the sound onto another disc. The first phonographs, although built for personal use, were not realistically portable (Edison Film and Sound). Once they were placed, they were not indented to be moved. For that reason, many of them were installed in places where people gathered; these became known as phonograph parlors 
There are some researchers who might claim that the exclusivity of the phonograph made them a tool of social distinction and singled out “the some” from “the many”, thereby making the phonograph a tool of anti-sociability. Many of these claims are substantiated in the fact that the machine itself was very expensive for its time, as well as the fact that music was very truly hard to find or to share. However, I believe that this is untrue. The discs that contained the musical elements that would be listened to could be traded from person to person at will. While it does not quite come close to the sharing capabilities of the Internet or MP3s, there was still a way to share things back in Edison’s time. Also, in order to trade this music, you actually had to be face to face with the person you are trading music with, much unlike today. In Edison’s day, records of any kind had to have a physical presence to be recorded or transmitted from person to person (Gitelman, PDF).

This face-to-face hand-off and sharing was another social mechanism of the phonograph. In order to trade, you had to meet up with someone in person and come up with an agreement as to the length of exchange and what you would be receiving in return for your disc. While you can physically trade music today, the act of trading an object for another belonging to someone else creates a social bond that originated with the phonograph.