even though in Europe the patent had gone through a bout of legal technicalities. In the meantime Columbia Records were eying up the situation of double-sided disc. Columbia became interested and tried to use the same technique as the Victor Company in making double-sided records but was threatened with legal action, nonetheless, Columbia did not let the legal threat perturb them from their goal as they tried to market two-sided discs in 1908. Victor immediately sued them, but Columbia Records lawyer was a man of great determination who had other ideas up his sleeves. At the court hearing he stood up from his seat with the disc in question raised high above his head, and in a rather dramatised line of attack, asked this question; "If we are to be restricted to one side of the record, which side shall it be?" The patent for the double-sided record was reversed by the court. The overall concept went into the public domain, and by 1923 all recording companies throughout the world were using the double sided disc idea. The inventors certainly formulate a marvellous record of ingenious accomplishment that has extended into the realms of the 21st Century. When we look back through the ages of the history of the phonograph record and note throughout the past years of the struggles and the tribulations the inventors had to be contend with. the efforts they made in achieving their inventions. The many outstretched legal battles they fought over the rights of patents for their inventions. Indeed, truly formulate a awe-inspiring record of resourceful triumph, which has no doubt extended into our very own lives in this time. You will find that in the files of the Patent Offices; there are documentations containing the history of recorded sound and to the men that made it possible. |
