Editing Phonograph (section)

=== Australia ===
[[File:Conversazione of the Royal Society of Victoria.jpg|thumb|Wood engraving published in ''[[The Illustrated Australian News]]'', depicting a public demonstration of new technology at the Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) on 8 August 1878.|alt=]]
In [[Australian English]], "record player" was the term; "turntable" was a more technical term; "gramophone" was restricted to the old mechanical (i.e., wind-up) players; and "phonograph" was used as in [[British English]]. The "phonograph" was first demonstrated in Australia on 14 June 1878 to a meeting of the [[Royal Society of Victoria]] by the Society's Honorary Secretary, [[Alexander Sutherland (educator)|Alex Sutherland]] who published "The Sounds of the Consonants, as Indicated by the Phonograph" in the Society's journal in November that year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/147117|title=State Library Victoria – Viewer |access-date=2019-06-14 |archive-date=2022-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221114839/https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE12498293 |url-status=live}}</ref> On 8 August 1878 the phonograph was publicly demonstrated at the Society's annual ''conversazione'', along with a range of other new inventions, including the [[microphone]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5943561 |title=09 Aug 1878 – THE ROYAL SOCIETY. – Trove |newspaper=Argus |publisher=Trove.nla.gov.au |date=1878-08-09 |accessdate=2022-02-21 |archive-date=2022-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221114841/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5943561 |url-status=live }}</ref>