American Graphophone Cylinder Graphophone

The Bell and Tainter invention as a home product. The American Graphophone Company, set up in 1887 to exploit their patents, made this spring-driven cylinder machine between about 1897 and 1900; Columbia sold machines like it under the Graphophone name. Thomas Hood MacDonald is credited with the design. Shown with its long metal horn and a few wax cylinders in their cases, it is in the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan.