This is all I could find on Google, sorry it’s an output from Gemini…
None of them are gramophones, but they do have similarities.
Antikythera Mechanism (c. 2nd Century BC)
The First Device: It is the earliest known complex mechanical analogue device.
Gramophone Analogy: It uses an intricate, hand-cranked system of gears to decode physically “stored” mathematical information into a readable output.
The Hydraulis (Hydraulic Organ) (3rd Century BC)
Gramophone Analogy: Later versions utilized rotating pinned barrels that held pre-coded musical compositions to play songs automatically without human performance.
Hero’s Programmed Cylindrical Automata (1st Century AD)
Gramophone Analogy: They relied on a rotating cylinder wrapped with ropes and pegs to mechanically “record” and playback a sequence of physical actions and acoustic sounds.
Hero’s Automatic Trumpet Alarm (1st Century AD)
Gramophone Analogy: It used a kinetic trigger to instantly convert mechanical energy into a specific, predetermined acoustic playback through a brass horn.
I’ve never heard that before, do you know what the device was called or what to look up for it?
This is all I could find on Google, sorry it’s an output from Gemini…
None of them are gramophones, but they do have similarities.
The cylindrical automata is probably the closest, but that’s more like a music box (still very advanced and cool) than a gramophone.