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A Record Player was an updated form of the Phongraph. It played music on a flat table and used a needle to play the music.
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These were the first "compact" music devices that could be on the go with you.
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The phonograph, also called the gramophone, was the earliest form of listening to music. The phonograph can be described as any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or discs. Thomas Edison created the phonograph after his work on the telegraph and telephones. It was created in 1877. Early in this year he used a foil cylinder but later adapted it to a wax cylinder.
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Edison develops the New Phonograph, using a wax cylinder.
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Edison produces dolls with tiny cylinders inside to make them talk for the Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Company. He used the cylinders from his Phonograph.
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The Magnetophone was the first practical tape recorder.
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This invetion was basically a coin operated phonograph and would play songs for a nickle.
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A Cassette Player is a type of tape recorder for playing or recording audio on compact cassettes.
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A boombox, also known as a ghetto blaster, jambox, or radio-cassette, is a music player capable of receiving radio stations and playing recorded music, usually at high volumes.