One might as well try comparing coffee with a wheelbarrow. The music choice just mentioned was faced by those of us on the penultimate stage of the Gramophone Gold Disc Award, in which a group of us ...

In a gramophone it works a wee bit differently ... instead of turning a valve the flyball governor moves a large disk brake. The faster the shaft spins, the harder the brake is applied.

Feb. 19 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1878, Thomas Edison patented the first gramophone. Edison, who also invented the incandescent light bulb and motion picture camera, died in 1931.