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By 1917, the Disc Phonograph had garnered considerable success in the marketplace. This good fortune continued for almost seven years. In contrast, the cylinder phonograph business declined; by 1925, the remaining cylinder customers had to order directly from the factory. By 1920, Edison was the only disc company not using steel needles or the lateral method of grooves.
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The Edison Speaking Phonograph Company was established on January 24, 1878, to exploit the new machine by exhibiting it. Edison received $10,000 for the manufacturing and sales rights and 20% of the profits. As a novelty, the machine was an instant success, but was difficult to operate except by experts, and the tin foil would last for only a few playings.
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The advantages of this invention were evident in comparison with those of the phonograph and its cylinder. While with only one take, the gramophone managed to press thousands of copies from a sole matrix, the phonograph instead needed, for example, to make 500 cylinders, to perform 25 times the same task and directly and simultaneously record them in 20 phonographs. Undoubtedly, it was clear that the young record will soon be in favor, because of the lower production cost, of both elements: talking machine with much simpler mechanism and record of less complicated production, but as it was and will be at any time, Berliner's invention had to face more difficulties, similar circumstances to those of its challenger, the cylinder. The early commercial discs produced by the small Berliner Gramophone company were made of ebonite (hardened rubber), a material he named "vulcanite". Their diameters were of 5 inches (experimental size), recorded in 1894 and issued for bargain sale on an early stock list in November that year, where 7-inch discs(standard size) were ... included. The "vulcanite" discs did not achieve producing the sound reached by wax-cylinders, and this caused that, even though cheaper, they did not become quickly of commercial significance.
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Even in the early 20th century, the company was marketing through popular music; the company commissioned a play-on-words number called Under the Anheuser Bush, which was recorded by several early phonograph companies. Currently, some of their commercials feature the song "Galvanize", by The Chemical Brothers. In the last few years, a number of humorous advertisements for Bud Light have been shown on television. Some of the company theme songs, particularly "Here Comes the King", have been referenced by Budweiser TV commercials for many years.
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"Mary had a little lamb" were the first words that Edison recorded on the phonograph and he was amazed when he heard the machine play them back to him. In 1878, Edison established the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company to sell the new machine.
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In 1878, Thomas Edison established the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company to sell the new machine. He suggested other uses for the phonograph, such as: letter writing and dictation, phonographic books for blind people, a family record (recording family members in their own voices), music boxes and toys, clocks that announce the time, and a connection with the telephone so communications could be recorded.
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