The Victor company had agreements with AT&T which enabled
it take advantage the research being carried out in
electrical amplification and acoustics the laboratories of
Western Electric. Initially, Victor was slow see the
advantages electrical recording and procrastinated their
negotiations with AT&T. Experiments carried out by
J. Then the forces the market took
.P. Maxfield the Western Electric laboratories resulted in
the introduction method electrical recording which
sound picked with microphone, amplified vacuum
tube, and then inscribed the disc with electromagnetic
recorder. Edison had anticipated electrical
recording when stated, 1877, that telephone repeater
could used record and reproduce sound.XIII-20
the 1880s. the time that Edison tried
to increase sales improving the tone his disc and
developing long-playing record, Victor met the radio
challenge head-on adopting system electrical
recording— the technology which took the talking machine from
the acoustic phonograph the nineteenth century the high
fidelity the twentieth.
No amount inspired advertising innovation was able
to wrest sales from the competition while the Edison phonograph
technology remained conservative. The development of
electrical recording required extensive knowledge of
acoustics and electronics— and here the research laboratories
of and AT&T had the advantage
