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History of the Amberola 50
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History Edison Amberola 50
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cylinders to be played at each winding. In 1915 Edison consolidated the Amberolas into three lines. They were named after their cost in dollars. The 30 sold for $30, the 50 for $50, and the 75 for $75. The model 30 was the most popular. Later the Model 60 and the floor model 80, made in 1928 were produced. Edison's Blue Amberol Records were introduced in 1912. A new variety of reproducers were created to make the sound more accurate. Starting with the Amberolas 30, 50 &: 75 in 1915 the Diamond C was created. These used a diamond stylus and a diaphragm of rice paper and cork.
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1915 Events * January 13 – An earthquake (6.8 in Richter scale) in Avezzano, Italy - 32.610 dead * January 19 - George Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. * January 19 - German zeppelins bomb the cities of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom for the first time, killing more than 20. * January 21 - Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan. * January 27 - United States Marines occupy Haiti. * January 28 - An act of the United States Congress creates the United States Coast Guard. * January 31 - World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russians. * February 8 - The controversial film The Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith premieres (Los Angeles, California). * February 12 - In Washington, DC the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place. * March 3 - NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded. * March 14 - World War I: Off the coast of Chile, the Royal Navy sinks the German battleship SMS Dresden. * March 14 - Britain, France and Russia agree to give Constantinople and the Bosporus to Russia in case of victory (the treaty is later nullified by the Bolshevik revolution) * March 18 - World War I: British attack on the Dardanelles fails. * March 19 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet. * April 22 - World War I: Second Battle of Ypres - German troops introduce poison gas at Ypres, Belgium. * April 24 - Turkish troops attack the Armenian region of Van, starting the Armenian Genocide. In Constantinople, Turkish officers round up 300 ethnically Armenian intellectuals and execute them * April 25 - The Anzac tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast. * April 30 - Australian submarine AE2 sunk in Sea of Marmora. * May 7 - World War I: The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat killing 1,198. * May 9 - World War I: Second Battle of Artois - German and French forces fight. * May 17 - The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls. * May 22 - Quintinshill railway disaster, Scotland, UK. 200 killed. * May 23 - World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary. * June 9 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking. * June 16 - Foundation of the British Women's Institute * June 24 - The steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago, and over 800 people die. * June 29 – Roger Casement is sentenced to be hanged for treason * August 5 – 23 - hurricane over Galveston and New Orleans – 275 dead * August 6 - World War I: Battle of Sari Bair begins - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay. * August 17 - Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia. * September 6 - The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time. * October 12 - World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium. * Alfred Wegener proposes the theory of Pangea. * Emory College is rechartered as Emory University, and plans to move its main campus from Oxford, Georgia to Atlanta. * U.S. recognizes government of President Venustiano Carranza of Mexico. * Lord Beaverbrook buys the London Daily Express. * Automobile speed record of 102.6 m.p.h. set at Sheepshead Bay, N.Y.. by Gil Anderson driving a Stutz. * The first stop sign appears in Detroit, Michigan. * Female suffrage in Denmark and Iceland * Henri Desiré Landru begins his serial kills * Typhoid Mary isolated Ongoing events * World War I (1914-1918) * Armenian Genocide (1915-1918) * Hellenic Holocaust (1914-1922) Births * January 14 - Mark Goodson, game show producer and television pioneer (d. 1992) * January 20 - Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan * January 24 – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1991) * January 31 - Thomas Merton, monk and author (d. 1968]) * February 1 – Artur London, Czech statesman (d. 1986) * April 4 - Muddy Waters, blues musician (d. 1983) * April 7 - Billie Holiday, jazz and blues singer * May 1 - Krystyna Skarbek, heroine of WW II (d. 1952) * May 1 - Archie Williams, American athlete * May 6 - Orson Welles, American director (Citizen Kane) * May 20 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader, politician (d. 1981) * August 22 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000) * November 11 - William Proxmire, former U.S. Senator * December 7 - Eli Wallach, actor * December 12 - Frank Sinatra, American entertainer * December 19 - Edith Piaf, French singer Deaths * January 15 - Mary Slessor, Scottish Christian missionary to West Africa (b. 1848) * February 5 - Ross Barnes, baseball player * March 31 - Wyndham Halswelle, British runner * April 23 - Rupert Brooke, poet * July 16 - Ellen G. White, prophetess, co-founder of Seventh-Day Adventism * September 9 - Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer * October 12 - Charles Sorley, poet * November 15 - Booker T. Washington, African-American educator |
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| Music at the time of
the Amberola 50 Events * Tom Brown Tom Brown, sometimes known by the nickname Red Brown (June 3, 1888 - March 25, 1958), was an early New Orleans jazz trombonist. He also played string bass professionally. Tom P. Brown was born in Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. His younger brother Steve Brown also became a prominent professional musician. He played trombone with the bands of Papa Jack Laine and Frank Christian; by 1910 usually worked leading bands under his own name. The band played in a style then locally known as "hot ragtime" or "ratty music". In early 1915 his band was heard by Vaudeville dancer Joe Frisco, who arranged a job for Brown's band in Chicago, Illinois.'
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| Activity The amberola was the last of the cylinder disk lines. Later flat disks were produced. Why do you think this transition occurred? Amberola phonographs required less winding but still, cylinders would have to be changed every 4 minutes. How does that compare to the time that a flat disk would play? Amberolas were produced in several configurations. The exact same hardware was put into different cases. What does this say about American consumer culture? Take a look at the music of the time. From the titles of the songs - Determine how popular music was the same as it is today. How was it different? Amberola machines did not come with styluses which could record on wax cylinders as did earlier models. In fact if you play a wax cylinder on an amberola it would be destroyed. Why would edison eliminate the recording feature? What does this say about the development of the recording industry? What does this say about the way phonographs were used in the home? |
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