Tom
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Has anyone ever seen one of these amazing little pocket record players? About the size of a large pocket watch or a small cheese
Having portable music is something we take for granted these days. We?ve got all sorts of pocket devices to hold music and video and data, but believe it or not, it hasn?t always been that way. Even though record players and earlier phonographs weren?t really the best thing to be made portable, people tried. There were cars with built-in record players and other devices to try and make portable tunes. One of the more interesting was the Mikiphone portable phonograph, that used a small phonograph with 10? records.
Manufactured in Switzerland from 1924 to 1927, the Mikiphone had no batteries ? you had to wind up its crank to power it. But what I find strangest about the Mikiphone is that as you can see, it?s way smaller than the medium it reads. The device itself is said to be as small as a CD, but still The Mikiphone was still pretty big by today?s ' pocket ' standards. Maybe people a long time ago had much bigger pockets. And there was still some other assembly to get the thing working, but yet it was something.
Having portable music is something we take for granted these days. We?ve got all sorts of pocket devices to hold music and video and data, but believe it or not, it hasn?t always been that way. Even though record players and earlier phonographs weren?t really the best thing to be made portable, people tried. There were cars with built-in record players and other devices to try and make portable tunes. One of the more interesting was the Mikiphone portable phonograph, that used a small phonograph with 10? records.
Manufactured in Switzerland from 1924 to 1927, the Mikiphone had no batteries ? you had to wind up its crank to power it. But what I find strangest about the Mikiphone is that as you can see, it?s way smaller than the medium it reads. The device itself is said to be as small as a CD, but still The Mikiphone was still pretty big by today?s ' pocket ' standards. Maybe people a long time ago had much bigger pockets. And there was still some other assembly to get the thing working, but yet it was something.
