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Technology, Invention, and Innovation Collections Charles Sumner Tainter, son of George and Abigail Sanger Tainter, was born on April 25, 1854, in Watertown, Massachusetts, near Boston. Tainter's memoirs: "Early History of Charles Sumner Tainter" give a very personal account of his childhood and youth, and of his later role as a member of the U. Government Expedition to observe the transit of Venus in 1874. In his memoirs Tainter describes his father as "a man of much force of character and inventive ability" and his mother as a woman of "high character and beloved by all." His school years left him with an absolute horror of public speaking that followed him all his life. americanhistory.si.edu /archives/d8124.htm

Charles Sumner Tainter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Sumner Tainter ( April 25, 1854 - April 20, 1940) was an American engineer and inventor, best known for his collaborations with Alexander Graham Bell and his improvements to Thomas Alva Edison 's phonograph, resulting in the graphophone, one version of which was the first dictaphone. Tainter was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he went to public school. In 1873, he took a job for a company producing telescopes in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which got the contract for the observation of the transit of venus on December 8, 1874, and Tainter was sent with the observation expedition to New Zealand. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Sumner_Tainter

Schallplatte - Wikipedia Bereits im Jahre 1880 erkannte der US-amerikanische Physiker Charles Sumner Tainter, dass viele technische Nachteile der Edison'schen Walzen beseitigt werden könnten, wenn man die Tonspur spiralförmig in die Oberfläche einer flachen, runden Scheibe eingravieren würde. Tainter entwickelte den Prototypen eines entsprechenden Aufnahmeapparats und stellte einige bespielte Wachsplatten her, gab die Versuche aber infolge technischer Probleme nach kurzer Zeit wieder auf. Tainters Wachsplatten befinden sich heute im Smithsonian Institute in Washington; sie gelten als die ersten Schallplatten der Welt. de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Schallplatte

Alexander Graham Bell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Another of Bell's inventions was the photophone, a device enabling the transmission of sound over a beam of light, which he developed together with Charles Sumner Tainter. Bell and Tainter, however, were apparently the first to perform a successful experiment, by no means any easy task, as they even had to produce the selenium cells with the desired resistance characteristics themselves. The sender consisted of a mirror directing sunlight onto the mouthpiece, where the light beam was modulated by a vibrating mirror, focused by a lens and directed at the receiver, which was simply a parabolic reflector with the selenium cells in the focus and the telephone attached. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell

Photophone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In one experiment in Washington, D.C., Bell and his co-inventor Charles Sumner Tainter succeeded to communicate clearly over a distance of some 700  ft. The photophone functioned similarly to the telephone, except the photophone used light as a means of projecting the information, while the telephone relied on electricity. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Photophone

Chronomedia: 1880-1884 Charles Tainter develops the lateral-cut technique for cylinder recording. With the $10,000 Volta Prize awarded by the French government in recognition of the invention of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell establishes a laboratory in Washington DC (the Volta Laboratory) to study acoustics and sound reproduction in collaboration with his cousin, chemical engineer Chichester A Bell, and scientist and instrument maker Charles Sumner Tainter. October 17 Bell and Tainter donate a sound recording machine to the Smithsonian Institution that uses jets of air to inscribe sounds. www.terramedia.co.uk /Chronomedia/years/1880-1884.htm

COLUMBIA GRAPHOPHONE COMPANY 1893 zog sich Charles Tainter, der schwer lungenkrank war, aus der American Graphophone Co. zurück. Tainter richtete sich in Washington ein neues Labor ein und erfand dort eine Maschine, die aus schräg aufgerollten, verklebten Pappstreifen die inneren Pappkerne für die Wachscylinder herstellen konnte. Tainter gab bei der in New York ansässigen Firma Bergman and Co., die schon für Edison Zinnfolienphonographen gebaut hatte, eine erste Vorserie von sechs Graphophonen in Auftrag, die infolge technischer Schwierigkeiten erst am 1. www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/C/Columbia_Graphophone_Company

Charles Sumner Tainter and the Graphophone Tainter improved the cylinder holder and ear-plugs in patent 380,535, and added a new feature that allowed the making of two records at the same time, allowing the operator to keep one copy of a dictated letter and mail a duplicate copy to the correspondent. Tainter and Chichester Bell and A. Bell began work on improving the phonograph in the spring 1881, and found that the indenting method using a pliable strip of tin foil was the main problem. Tainter was opposed this merger and believed that a showing his graphophone to Edison would cause the inventor to start work again on his old phonograph that he had put aside in 1879. history.acusd.edu /gen/recording/graphophone.html

Earliest Identified Flat Disc Record The earliest identified flat disc record was made by Sumner Tainter on November 8th, 1881 and is in the Smithsonian Institution collection. This disc uses lateral or zigzag grooves in contrast to the hill-and-dale grooves of the Edison cylinder. This record was made before there was even a practical device to play back a disc recording. www.cedmagic.com /history/tainter-phonogram.html

Doodles, Drafts & Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian Charles Sumner Tainter, Washington, D.C. Starting in 1879, Charles Sumner Tainter (1854-1940), a machinist and scientific instrument maker, worked with Alexander Graham Bell on a series of sound-related inventions, including a photophone, for transmitting sound over a light beam, and a variety of graphophones, Bell's term for his style of phonograph. Tainter kept detailed notebooks of each day's work—notebooks that later played a key part in the endless patent suits involving Bell, Tainter, Edison, and other phonograph inventors. Charles F. Brannock (1903-1992) began tinkering with the idea of a new foot-measuring device while still in college. www.sil.si.edu /exhibitions/doodles/cf/working.cfm

The Graphophone by Charles Sumner Tainter TAINTER has exhibited a great amount of ingenuity and skill in devising the various parts of the machine, and suiting them to the purposes for which they were designed. Source: Tainter Papers, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, D. scanned June 21, 1999 by Schoenherr The instrument is a marvel of perfection in accuracy of the movements of all its parts. history.acusd.edu /gen/recording/ar311.html

Sumner, Charles --  Encyclopædia Britannica During the 23 years he served as United States senator from Massachusetts, Charles Sumner was often a champion of unpopular causes. Speeches and debates by and involving Charles Sumner in the United States Senate as he proposed to amend the 1866 Civil Rights Act to ensure equal rights to African-Americans in the South. Sumner discusses race, the separate but equal doctrine, slavery, and citizenship. www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9070314

Charles Sumner Tainter Charles Sumner Tainter (1850-1940) wurde in Watertown/Massaschusettes/USA geboren und lebte dort bis 1879. Charles Sumner Tainter starb nach 6-jähriger Krankheit am 22.April 1940. Im Jahre 1905 zog Tainter um nach San Diego, und lebte dort noch 35 Jahre. www.tonaufzeichnung.de /personen/charles_sumner_tainter.shtml

Sony Music Online USA Columbia and Epic trace their beginnings to the late 1880s, to the Columbia Graphophone Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and the experiments of scientist Charles Sumner Tainter and his engineer colleague Chichester A. Bell, a cousin of Alexander Graham Bell. A patent was granted Tainter and Chichester Bell on May 4, 1886, specifically for a disc, but the two chose a cylinder for their work. The purchase of controlling interests for both Edison's and Tainter and Bell's patents led to the founding of the North American Phonograph Company, whose primary purpose was to manufacture office dictating machines. www.sonymusic.com /sony/about.html

Extraordinary Times - Cylinder Origins Alexander Graham Bell commissioned his cousin, Chichester Bell and a talented engineer by the name of Charles Sumner Tainter to improve upon Edison's design. Bell and Tainter's device would inspire Edison to continue improvements to his own Phonograph, and other inventors to try their hand at sound recording. Their research, conducted in the Volta Laboratory in Washington, D.C., resulted in the release of their own speaking machine, the Graphophone, in 1886. www.thetalkingmachine.com /extraordinary_1.htm

NameTraq Last Name: Tainter Also on show are pages from notebooks, like one kept 120 years ago by Charles Sumner Tainter. This is the largest cast that MTG has ever assembled on the Mabel Tainter stage and it has some of the strongest singers in the community. Four people from Missouri died and two others were injured when their pleasure boat hit steel Tainter Gate 7 on the dam in an alcohol-related crash. nametraq.org /Jan04/T/Tainter.shtml

WACHSZYLINDER Mitte 1886 wurde die erste Wachswalze mit einem Diktiersystem von Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) and Charles Sumner Tainter (1854-1940) vorgestellt. Eine Kooperation mit Bell und Tainter hatte er kurz vorher energisch abgelehnt. Erst ab 1902 gab es einheitlich genormte Geschwindigkeit (160 U/min) für Wachswalzen. www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/W/Wachszylinder

Thomas A. Edison Industries Minutes 1936 signed by Board of Directors including Charles Edison Charles Edison was born at Glenmont on August 3, 1890 at Glenmont. Charles is the best known of the Edison children because of his second career, in public service. New Jersey voters elected him as their governor in 1940, but Charles broke a family tradition in the process--he ran as a Democrat. www.atca.com /noname40.html

NEC-CAH Letters H-O Letter to [Charles Sumner Nutter], dated Portland, OR, Feb. 4, 1905. Charles Wesley Burns, dated Boston, MA, March 19, 1935. Letter to Charles Sumner Nutter, dated Burlington, VT, April 11, 1904. www.bu.edu /sth/archives/cah/cahletters2.htm

Early Sound Recording and the Invention of the Gramophone - History - The Virtual Gramophone He brought in his cousin, Chichester Bell, and an English scientist, Charles Sumner Tainter, who soon turned their attention to developing an improved phonograph based on Edison's British patent of 1878. Instead of tinfoil, which was delicate and difficult to remove and replace with a recording intact, Bell and Tainter used wax-coated cardboard cylinders. Moreover, Bell and Tainter utilized clockwork, a foot treadle and subsequently an electric motor instead of Edison's manual crank. www.collectionscanada.ca /gramophone/m2-3004-e.html

Brief History of talking machine In 1881 Charles Sumner Tainter made the next improvement to the talking machine. In 1886 Sumner Tainter applied for patents on a new talking machine, called the Graphophone, which used wax covered cardboard cylinders for records. Between 1877 and 1886 Edison did little to improve the Phonograph, devoting much of this period to the perfection of the electric light globe and a system for the distribution of electricity. www.lightandsound.net.au /HistoryOfTalkingMachine.htm

Telephone Introduction Bell and his assistant, Charles Sumner Tainter, developed the photophone using a sensitive selenium crystal and a mirror that would vibrate in response to a sound. Toward this end, in 1881, he used the $10,000 award for winning France's Volta Prize to set up the Volta Laboratory in Washington, D.C. A believer in scientific teamwork, Bell worked with two associates, his cousin Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter, at the Volta Laboratory. His Family included: His uncle, David Charles Bell, his father Alexander Melville Bell, in-law's Hubbard, his brother Melville James Bell, his daughters Elsie May Bell and Marian Hubbard Bell. www.pwc.k12.nf.ca /projects/communication/telephones/inventor.htm

Today in Technology History - May 4 He was joined by two others: Dr. Chichester Bell (A.G. Bell's cousin and a chemist) and Charles Sumner Tainter (a chemical engineer and instrument maker). After years of experiments, the Bells and Tainter produced a machine that recorded sound on wax cylinders, cutting grooves in the wax with a stylus. On May 4, 1886, the U.S. Patent Office issued patents in Tainter's name for the trio's work. www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2001/may4.htm

Tainter Family Genealogy Forum Re: Sumner Tainter,Co-Inventor of Gramaphone - Bonnie Gagnon 8/19/01 Charles Taintor 1642 to Benjamin and Hannah (Norton) Taintor 1847. Lucinda Tainter m Ancil Winslow - Barbara Wathen 7/27/04 genforum.genealogy.com /tainter

Steve Schoenherr Home Page Charles Sumner Tainter and the Graphophone for Recording Technology History, 2001. www.sandiego.edu /~ses

Wax Cylinder Phonograph - The Edison Papers It was not until Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter demonstrated a wax-record cylinder phonograph in the mid-1880s that Edison again turned his attention to sound recording. Between 1887 and 1889, Edison and his laboratory staff developed improved phonographs and wax cylinders that were technically superior to the Bell-Tainter graphophone. Edison's early efforts to develop a commercial phonograph using tinfoil as a recording surface had proved a failure. edison.rutgers.edu /cylinder.htm

The Gramophone. And so others moved forward to improve on his invention, including Chichester A. Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter, who developed a wax cylinder for the phonograph. Similar machine was invented by French "blessed" poet and scientist Charles Cros in 1877, but it was only a theory, since he did not produce a working model of it (and more: his envelope with the invention was in the French Academy of Sciences opened as long as a several months after delivery). The patent on the phonograph was issued on February 19, 1878. www.quido.cz /objevy/gramofon.a.htm

Gender and Recording-Case Study of Dictation Equipment - 1 Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, and Charles Sumner Tainter picked up the ball a few years later, and developed an improved version of the phonograph, naming it the graphophone. Thomas Edison had invented the phonograph in 1877, but after demonstrating it had moved on to other projects, most notably his system of electric lighting. Instead of tinfoil wrapped around a cylinder, the graphophone used a cylinder made of wax, which resulted in better recordings. www.recording-history.org /HTML/men_women1.htm

Bell-Tainter Graphophone In the 1880's, while Edison was pre-occupied with his electric light research, Bell founded a research laboratory where his cousin Chichester Bell and physicist Charles Sumner Tainter worked on improving the phonograph. When Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell was stunned that this opportunity had slipped through his fingers. They dubbed their version the "Graphophone" and designed it to play 6" long records consisting of a cardboard tube with a thin ozocerite wax coating (see photograph below). members.aol.com /tinfoilphono/bell.htm

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