Gramophone Gallery

Advertisement for Ye Olde Jacobean cafe, Derby

Advertisement for Ye Olde Jacobean, The Wardwick, Derby's Supreme Cafe, where you need not be ashamed to meet your friends, and where you can hear the famous electric gramophone

© Mary Evans Picture Library/GILL STOKER

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Boiling a kettle by will power 1932

Major Raymond Phillips with the apparatus, by which he claimed to cause an electrical gramophone or kettle to operate. The human body acted, he said, as an earth, and the constant capacity was maintained within 3 yards of the apparatus. Quite brilliantly bonkers. Date: 1932

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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Advertisement for a Music Shop in Vienna, Austria

Advertisement for a Music Shop in Vienna, Austria showing a very jovial woman (the reason for her joviality raised in her right hand!!) amplified by the musical delights provided by a large gramophone. Date: circa 1900

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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