Have you ever listened to a phonograph record? Or a gramophone, as they are known in Britain.
I haven't personally, I think they're pretty old. When was the phonograph invented?
It was actually invented way back in 1877.
Wow what an interesting piece of history, do you know roughly how the phonograph works?
It uses soundwaves to make an engraving on a disc, or record. It sounds pretty complicated and advanced for the day.
Yeah I guess now we have things a lot fancier than that like blue-ray DVDs and such. Do you enjoy watching movies?
It depends on the movie. Interestingly enough, I just heard a hip-hop song called  "Watching Movies".
That's funny, what artist made that song named "Watching Movies"?
Watching Movies
Watching Movies is a song by American hip hop recording artist Mac Miller. The song was released on May 25, 2013 as the second single from his second studio album "Watching Movies with the Sound Off". The song was produced by Sap (who produced his debut single "Donald Trump") and by Miller under the alias Larry Fisherman. "Watching Movies" peaked at number 33 on the US "Billboard" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. A music video by Rex Arrow and
, they were scanned into a computer and software was used to convert their sound-modulated traces into digital audio files. Brief excerpts from two French songs and a recitation in Italian, all recorded in 1860, are the most substantial results.
Acoustical recording Phonograph/Gramophone.
The phonograph, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877, could both record sound and play it back. The earliest type of phonograph sold recorded on a thin sheet of tinfoil wrapped around a grooved metal cylinder. A stylus connected to a sound-vibrated