Berliner Gramophone "His Master's Voice" Dog Model

RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New York (NY)

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  • Year
  • 1900 ?
  • Category
  • Talking machine - Mechanical Gramophone/Phonograph 
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 356507
    • alternative name: RCA Manufacturing || Victor Talking Machine

 Technical Specifications

  • Wave bands
  • - without
  • Details
  • Other Recorder/Player
  • Power type and voltage
  • Solar- and/or muscle driven, also addl. power jack possible
  • Loudspeaker
  • Horn
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Berliner Gramophone "His Master's Voice" Dog Model - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New
  • Shape
  • Tablemodel, with any shape - general.
  • Notes

  • Berliner Gramophone "His Master's Voice" Dog Model. One of the first flat disc talking machines, made in America around 1900 by Emile Berliner and probably sold by the Victor Talking Machine Company, which made the Victrola, and later acquired by RCA-Victor. It has a simple spring motor and a vertical crank and looks very similar to the Canadian version of the Berliner model A (see Reiss). The listening dog, RCA dog "Nipper", is the symbol of high fidelity, which has become the famous RCA trademark of "La Voce de Padrone" or "His Master's Voice". 

  • Mentioned in
  • -- Original prospect or advert ("I Grammofoni" Italy from Nino Ciravegna and Fermo Galbiati†, Edicart editor)
  • Literature/Schematics (1)
  • The Compleat Talking Machine, Eric L. Reiss, 2007 Fifth Ed,. page 159 (photo) and 232.
  • Author
  • Model page created by Pier Antonio Aluffi. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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