The desperate situation the Edison phonograph business
required radical innovation."
The technological response the phonograph depression
was the development louder "dance" reproducer and a
12-inch long-playing disc record. The
long-playing record indicates the gulf between his objectives
in the laboratory and the needs the market place. The long-player was
touted "revolutionizing invention" that would permit the
reproduction entire symphonies the minute playing time
of both sides.
Technically the long-playing record could not stand to
repeated play and its sound was too faint please the
customer. The latter was double sided
disc which was cut with 450 grooves the inch instead the
normal 150. Commercially the Edison library recordings did not
include complete symphonies operas that could played on
the long-playing machines. All phonograph manufacturers were
struggling come terms with the new radio environment and
this led wave innovation this declining industry. the
1920s was longer the commercial inventor had been in
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the manufacturers. This was difficult technical task because the
record material had very hard prevent the stylus from
breaking down the walls the grooves. Edison had produced the wrong
technological response the demand for louder recordings. William Miller told Edison, "under
the present conditions, feel that have got come out
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with some improvement. fact the innovation was failure
