context: Phonograph, gramophone, or gramophone. It is the first device used to record and restore sound invented by the American Thomas Edison in 1877 His name is known as phonograph according to the literal translation of the word phonograph and its meaning is the phonetic derivative from Greek where it derives from the word (phono - ono) and means sound and (Graph - --αφή) means writing, it recovers symmetrical recorded sounds on wax cylinders or any other device. [1] [2] [3] The cylinder, in the sense that it appears for the first time in the phonograph, is a cone shape. As for the gramophone custom, which is the most widespread, it is a disc with a spiral groove. The recording usually begins at the end of the disc and ends at the center. The gramophone was among the most common storage of audio recordings during the twentieth century. Although digital recording was in place from the 1980s, it is still produced and used as a luxury museum.
question: What is a phonograph, gramophone, or gramophone?
answers.text: device used to record and restore sound invented by the American Thomas Edison in 1877