page_title: Graphophone
hierarchical_section_title: Graphophone
caption_attribution_description: A Columbia type AT Graphophone, shown in a 1901 catalog published by the Maison de la Bonne Presse. Price: 110 Fr.
context_page_description: The Graphophone was the name and trademark of an improved version of the phonograph. It was invented at the Volta Laboratory established by Alexander Graham Bell in Washington, D.C., United States.
  Its trademark usage was acquired successively by the Volta Graphophone Company, then the American Graphophone Company, the North American Phonograph Company, and finally by the Columbia Phonograph Company, all of which either produced or sold Graphophones.
context_section_description: The Graphophone was the name and trademark of an improved version of the phonograph. It was invented at the Volta Laboratory established by Alexander Graham Bell in Washington, D.C., United States.
  Its trademark usage was acquired successively by the Volta Graphophone Company, then the American Graphophone Company, the North American Phonograph Company, and finally by the Columbia Phonograph Company (known today as Columbia Records), all of which either produced or sold Graphophones.
caption: A Columbia "Precision" Graphophone, a cylinder model sold in France, 1901
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