does any one know who invented or had the idea first for the juke box?

Question

my grandfather raymond somma of middlebury ct. had the plans drawn up and had it pattened along time ago and we just looked at a pic. of him with it and the drawings and such. my granfather passed away in 1962. i dont think you all will think of this as a good question but i just wanted to share some facts with you all

Answer 1

These years the music machines for public entertainment have been around for more than a century. The first steps to make the modern electrically amplified multi-selection phonographs possible were taken in the late 1880's in London, England, by Charles Adams-Randall (1888) and especially in San Francisco, California, by Louis T. Glass and William S. Arnold (1889). The coin-operated automatic phonographs, known today as jukeboxes, have over the years turned out to be among the most hard to kill cultural phenomena. Of course there have been good as well as bad times for the individuals and companies involved in the production of automatic phonographs, but so far the jukebox as such has survived both as a cultural and as a commercial phenomenon in most parts of the modern world.

The very early European and American history of the phonograph is still not quite elucidated, as new information concerning the pioneers Léon Scott de Martinville, Charles Cros, Thomas Alva Edison, and especially Frank Lambert, has been found recently. However, the first important name connected to the cylinder phonographs was Thomas Alva Edison, who applied for a patent for a "Phonograph or Speaking Machine" in 1877. That particular invention became the basis of the first American automatic music machines with coin slots called 'nickel-in-the-slot machines'. The concept of inserting a coin in order to listen to music from an automatic or semiautomatic cylinder or disc playing machine forms the actual basis of the term 'jukebox'.

Answer 2

Jukebox History
One of the early forerunners to the modern Jukebox as we know was the Nickel-in-the-Slot machine. In 1889, Louis Glass and William S. Arnold, placed a coin-operated Edison cylinder phonograph in the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. It was an Edison Class M Electric Phonograph in an oak cabinet that was refitted with a coin mechanism patented (U.S. 428,750) by Glass and Arnold. This was the first Nickel-in-the-Slot.

Q: Why are they called "Jukeboxes"?
First off, manufacturers did not call them "jukeboxes", they called them Automatic Coin-Operated Phonographs (or Automatic Phonographs, or Coin-Operated Phonographs). The term "jukebox" appeared in the 1930's and originated in the southern United States.

Answer 3

I as quickly as owned a Wurlitzer. on the nook candy shop, my fashionable track became Elvis Presley's rendition of Blue Suede footwear. additionally, invoice Haley and the Comets taking part in Rock around the Clock. The jukes have been a nickel a track, 6 performs for 1 / 4 returned then!