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Charles Sumner Tainter (April 25, 1854 – April 20, 1940) was an American scientific instrument maker, engineer and inventor, best known for his collaborations with Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, Alexander's father-in-law Gardiner Hubbard, and for his significant improvements to Thomas Edison's phonograph, resulting in the ...
Charles Sumner Tainter was an American inventor who, with Chichester A. Bell (a cousin of Alexander Graham Bell), greatly improved the phonograph by devising a wax-coated cardboard cylinder and a flexible recording stylus, both superior to the tinfoil surface and rigid stylus then used by Thomas A.
Charles Tainter invented various sound-recording instruments, including an improved version of Thomas Edison's phonograph known as the graphophone, the photophone, and the dictaphone. Born in Watertown, Massachusetts, Tainter, a self-educated man, began working for electrical and optical instrument companies in Boston, Massachusetts in 1870.
Although the graphophone with its long 6-inch wax cylinder never succeeded in the market place, the influence of Charles Sumner Tainter was significant and long lasting. He had been the first to introduce the method of cutting a zig-zag spiral groove in the wax surface of a record to improve sound quality.
Dec 11, 2013 · Physicist, electrical engineer, manufacturer of electrical apparatus and inventor. He worked with Alexander Graham Bell on the radiophone, the first wireless telephone, an instrument for transmitting sound to a distance through the agency of light, using sensitive selenium cells.
Jan 22, 2012 · Charles Sumner Tainter's drawing of the apparatus that recorded the original wax discs used in the duplication experiments of October 1881.
Charles Sumner Tainter, son of George and Abigail Sanger Tainter, was born on April 25, 1854, in Watertown, Massachusetts, near Boston. His father was an inventor with several patents to his name.
