• PugJesus@piefed.socialM
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    7 days ago

    I’ve never heard that before, do you know what the device was called or what to look up for it?

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      2 days ago

      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.
      • PugJesus@piefed.socialM
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        2 days ago

        The cylindrical automata is probably the closest, but that’s more like a music box (still very advanced and cool) than a gramophone.