Victor Talking Machine Company

An American phonograph and record company founded in 1901. It became a leading recording business and joined the Radio Corporation of America in 1929.

Eldridge R. Johnson: An American machinist and businessman who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company. Johnson built the company from his phonograph manufacturing business.
Gramophone: A sound-reproducing device that plays recorded sound from a rotating disc using a stylus and vibrating diaphragm. The gramophone was Victor's central playback product.
Enrico Caruso: An Italian operatic tenor whose recordings became among the earliest million-selling records. Caruso's Victor recordings demonstrated the commercial reach of star performers.
Gramophone record: A flat disc that stores sound in grooves for playback by a gramophone or record player. Victor helped establish the gramophone record as a mass-market music format.
Columbia Records: An American record label with roots in the Columbia Phonograph Company, founded in 1888. Columbia was Victor's principal competitor in the early American record market.
Emile Berliner: A German-American inventor who developed the gramophone and flat disc record system. Victor grew from the disc-record technology Berliner introduced.
Phonograph record: A disc or cylinder carrying grooves that encode sound for mechanical playback. Victor manufactured and sold records designed for its machines.
Billy Murray: An American popular singer who made numerous recordings for Victor in the early twentieth century. His records made Victor a major outlet for popular vocal music.
Record industry: The businesses involved in recording, manufacturing, distributing, and selling recorded music. Victor became one of the industry’s leading early companies.
Edison Records: A record label associated with Thomas Edison that issued cylinder and disc recordings. Edison's cylinder-based business competed with Victor's disc system.

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