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      • The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American recording company and phonograph manufacturer, incorporated in 1901.
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  2. In the company's early years, Victor issued recordings on the Victor, Monarch and De Luxe labels, with the Victor label on 7-inch records, Monarch on 10-inch records and De Luxe on 12-inch records. De Luxe Special 14-inch records were briefly marketed in 1903–1904.

  3. The Victor Talking Machine Company, an American recording company formed in 1901, was a leading producer of Phonographs & Records. In the company's early years, Victor issued recordings on 7” Victor labeled records, 10” Monarch labeled records, and 12” De Luxe labeled records.

  4. Eldridge Reeves Johnson (February 6, 1867 in Wilmington, Delaware [1] – November 14, 1945 in Moorestown, New Jersey [2] [3]) was an American businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901 and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph ...

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    Nationwide Victor Talking Machine Co. advertisement – May 18, 1916 The Victrola is the world’s greatest musical instrument — Do not confuse it with the cheap imitations that are now flooding the market. The fact that the world’s greatest operatic stars sing for and endorse the Victrola is sufficient evidence to commend it to you. In your home, thes...

    Excerpted from an article in the Hartford Courant (Hartford, Connecticut) December 8, 1974 The first apparatus for the recording and reproduction of sound… was the Edison Talking Machine, invented in 1877. It consisted basically of a rotating cylinder covered with tinfoil, against which a needle attached to a diaphragm rested. As the cylinder rotat...

    Text from the first page of instructions from “E Berliner’s Gramophone: Directions for users of the seven-inch hand machine” (c1898) The American Hand Gramophone reproducer is a talking machine which is both simple and effective, and will not easily get out of order, provided that the following directions are carefully kept in mind: 1. Place the ma...

    Family inherits 1915 side-winding Victrola, batch of records of no-fi era by George McCue – St Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) March 22, 1959 Several times in recent years, our household has advanced to the brink of acquiring new record-playing equipment, and each time it has pulled back. Our spasms of renewed interest always seem to come just as th...

    The trademark of supreme musical quality — It means the world’s largest and greatest musical industry Twenty years ago the talking-machine was a triviality. Today the Victrola is an instrument of Art. The exclusive Victor processes have lifted the making and the playing of musical records into the realm of the fine arts and rendered them delightful...

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  5. Jan 1, 2003 · It was created by merger and reorganization of two existing companies: Emile Berliners Berliner Gramophone Company, which produced disc records, and Johnson’s Consolidated Talking Machine Company, which produced machines for playing disc records.

  6. Oct 18, 2008 · The Victor Talking Machine Company was founded by Eldridge Johnson in 1901, and quickly became a main player in the quickly growing phonograph market. Johnson had been active in the phonograph business as a motor supplier for several years earlier, and had learned an immense deal about the emerging home entertainment market.

  7. Jul 5, 2024 · In the company's early years, Victor issued recordings on the Victor, Monarch and De Luxe labels, with the Victor label on 7-inch records, Monarch on 10-inch records and De Luxe on 12-inch records. De Luxe Special 14-inch records were briefly marketed in 1903–1904.

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