When Were Record Players Popular?

[{"selector":"#anim-6d19eb7c-9ff3-4341-b5f0-c56df297dbee","keyframes":{"opacity":[0,1]},"delay":0,"duration":1200,"easing":"cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.6, 0.0, 1)","fill":"both"}] [{"selector":"#anim-77aced91-e434-46f7-af46-9d380da8cd4c","keyframes":{"transform":["translate3d(99.73684%, 0px, 0)","translate3d(0px, 0px, 0)"]},"delay":0,"duration":1200,"easing":"cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.6, 0.0, 1)","fill":"both"}] It was in the 1960s and the 1970s that record players really saw their golden age blooming . Popular as they are today and as they were among turntablists later in the century at the advent of hip-hop and such like, this was the first time they had really been able to show the world what they were made of.

Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville invents the phonoautograph

Thomas Edison invents the phonograph

Emile Berliner comes along with a variant on the phonograph named the Gramophone

Columbia Records advertise the new 12 inch record and herald it into the world.

The record player becomes popular and supersedes gramophone technology

Vinyl revival begins to take hold of the western world

When Were Record Players Popular?

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