Editing Phonograph (section)

===Graphophone commercialization===
[[File:Graphophone1901.jpg|thumb|A later-model Columbia Graphophone of 1901]]
[[File:Edison Phonograph 1AA.webm|thumb|thumbtime=0|Edison-Phonograph playing: ''Iola'' by the Edison Military Band (video, 3 min 51 s)]]
In 1885, when the Volta Associates were sure that they had a number of practical inventions, they filed [[patent]] applications and began to seek out investors. The [[Volta Graphophone Company]] of Alexandria, Virginia, was created on January 6, 1886, and incorporated on February 3, 1886. It was formed to control the patents and to handle the commercial development of their sound recording and reproduction inventions, one of which became the first [[Dictaphone]].<ref name="Newville"/>

After the Volta Associates gave several demonstrations in the City of Washington, businessmen from [[Philadelphia]] created the American Graphophone Company on March 28, 1887, in order to produce and sell the machines for the budding phonograph marketplace.<ref name=ERS/> The Volta Graphophone Company then merged with American Graphophone,<ref name=ERS>Hoffmann, Frank W. & Ferstler, Howard. [https://books.google.com/books?id=xV6tghvO0oMC&pg=PA1167 Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound: Volta Graphophone Company] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307014143/https://books.google.com/books?id=xV6tghvO0oMC&pg=PA1167 |date=2017-03-07 }}, CRC Press, 2005, Vol.1, pg.1167, {{ISBN|041593835X}}, {{ISBN|978-0-415-93835-8}}</ref> which itself later evolved into [[Columbia Records]].<ref name="Schoenherr2005">Schoenherr, Steven. [http://homepage.mac.com/oldtownman/recording/graphophone.html Recording Technology History: Charles Sumner Tainter and the Graphophone] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111223045342/http://homepage.mac.com/oldtownman/recording/graphophone.html |date=2011-12-23 }}, originally published at the History Department of, [[University of San Diego]], revised July 6, 2005. Retrieved from University of San Diego History Department website December 19, 2009. Document transferred to a personal website upon Professor Schoenherr's retirement. Retrieved again from homepage.mac.com/oldtownman website July 21, 2010.</ref><ref name="EWB2004">Encyclopedia of World Biography. "[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3404700543.html Alexander Graham Bell] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105200232/http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3404700543.html |date=2010-01-05 }}", Encyclopedia of World Biography. Thomson Gale. 2004. Retrieved December 20, 2009 from Encyclopedia.com.</ref>

A coin-operated version of the Graphophone, {{US patent|506348}}, was developed by Tainter in 1893 to compete with ''nickel-in-the-slot'' entertainment phonograph {{US patent|428750}} demonstrated in 1889 by Louis T. Glass, manager of the Pacific Phonograph Company.<ref>[http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a21127/how-the-jukebox-got-its-groove/ How the Jukebox Got its Groove] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126074647/http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a21127/how-the-jukebox-got-its-groove/ |date=2017-01-26 }} Popular Mechanics, June 6, 2016, retrieved July 3, 2017</ref>

The work of the Volta Associates laid the foundation for the successful use of [[Dictation machine|dictating machines]] in business, because their wax recording process was practical and their machines were durable. But it would take several more years and the renewed efforts of Edison and the further improvements of [[Emile Berliner]] and many others, before the [[recording industry]] became a major factor in [[Entertainment center|home entertainment]].<ref name="Newville"/>

The technology quickly became popular abroad, where it was also used in new ways. In 1895, for example, [[Hungary]] became the first country to use phonographs to conduct [[folklore]] and [[Ethnomusicology|ethnomusicological]] research, after which it became common practice in ethnography.<ref>István Kollega Tarsoly: A magyar folklór történetének korszakai, <nowiki>https://mek.oszk.hu/02100/02185/html/550.html#551</nowiki></ref>