My grandparents have phonograph records, do you know anything about that?
a phonohraph record is an analog sound storae with medium in the form of a flat disc with an indscribed modulated spiral groove. ever had one?
No I don't think I have, when were these used?
it was the primary medium for music reproduction until late in the 20th century. it had been around for nearly one hundred years i believe
Wow, do they know who invented them?
The phonograph disc record was the primary medium used for music reproduction throughout the 20th century. It had co-existed with the phonograph cylinder from the late 1880s and had effectively superseded it by around 1912. Vinyl records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as the compact cassette were mass-marketed. By the 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in 1991. Since the 1990s, vinyl records continue to
Phonograph record
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or simply record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. At first, the discs were commonly made from shellac; starting in the 1940s polyvinyl chloride became common. In recent decades, records have sometimes been called vinyl records, or simply vinyl or even vinyls.