Fremantle Light and Sound Discovery Centre
Program details
The Tale of the Talking Machine

 60 minute presentation


Suitable for Science classes and S & E classes

Year 3 to Year 9
Making a gramophone

 The story of the invention of the gramophone and the phonograph is told using original talking machines, including the biggest horn gramophone ever made.

Students will hear early cylinder and disc records.

They can record their voice on a cylinder record and hear it played back on a phonograph, and

They can make their own working Crank-o-Phone ‘horn gramophone’ that actually plays. Free record supplied.
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