First recorded in 1930–35
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He relishes educating customers, explaining the nuances of a record player, a record changer, a phonograph and a gramophone.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2017
Shannon also puckishly designed an “Ultimate Machine”: simply a box with a button and a hand that emerged to shut it off, as if anticipating Charles Addams’ one-handed record changer, Thing.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2012
The new record changer has a double tone arm, shaped like a big tuning fork, whose prongs, each equipped with a needle and pickup, swing out over both sides of the record at once.
From Time Magazine Archive
The guarantee was possible because of the development of an automatic record changer with a tone arm that rests so lightly on records that the company says both needle and record will last longer.
From Time Magazine Archive
It took the combination of shellac discs, electronic amplification and an automatic record-changer for National Automatic Music Company to manufacture the first 20-song multiplay machines in 1927.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
With a complete line of radios, phonographs and radio-phonographs, besides Capehart's record-changer patents, Farnsworth Corp. will have something to keep it busy while'television is turning the corner.
From Time Magazine Archive
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