what came before a phonograph
The phonograph, invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison, sent music on the sharpest tangent in its history. Mark Coleman writes about how the phonograph changed the music listening experience in his book, Playback: from the Victrola to MP3, 100 Years of Music, Machines, and Money.
this idea was quickly patented and the copyrighted name victrola was given to this new invention the term victrola thus applies only to internal horn phonographs made by the victor talking machine company and is not a generic term for all old phonographs the first internal horn phonograph initially designated as the victor victrola was marketed in 1906