VIRTUAL RECORD PLAYER

The Record player, a device that could play sound by reading vibrations from a record disk, was invented by a well known inventor, Thomas Edison. He created a device that would change the world forever.

Today, our radios, our ipods, and our computers all started as a medium size box, where a needle moved across groves in tinfoil paper to create noise, which was amplified through a small speaker.

The gramophone made in 1887 was made by Emile Berliner. Emile took Edison's original record player to the next level. The gramophone, was similar to the record player, but had better features. The gramophone could still play music or recordings, but it didn't use foil like the record player.

The gramophone introduced vinyl, the disk that you see DJ's using on their turn tables. On the side of the gramophone, is a crank used to spin the vinyl that created the same noise as the record player.

The Turntable, invented by Daniel Leland Cooley in the 1930s. The turntable, was not much of a hit when it was invented, but it sky rocketed in the 1970s. People called "Disk Jockeys", or what we call"DJs", used the turntables to play multiple songs at parties, concerts, and more.

The turntable also invented a techniqe DJs used called scratching, when you move the vinyl disk back and forth. In the next coming decades, the turntables became huge, and DJing was taken to a whole new level!