This is all I could find on Google, sorry it’s an output from Gemini…
None of them are gramophones, but they do have similarities.
- Antikythera Mechanism (c. 2nd Century BC)
- The First Device: It is the earliest known complex mechanical analogue device.
- Gramophone Analogy: It uses an intricate, hand-cranked system of gears to decode physically "stored" mathematical information into a readable output.
- The Hydraulis (Hydraulic Organ) (3rd Century BC)
- Gramophone Analogy: Later versions utilized rotating pinned barrels that held pre-coded musical compositions to play songs automatically without human performance.
- Hero’s Programmed Cylindrical Automata (1st Century AD)
- Gramophone Analogy: They relied on a rotating cylinder wrapped with ropes and pegs to mechanically "record" and playback a sequence of physical actions and acoustic sounds.
- Hero’s Automatic Trumpet Alarm (1st Century AD)
- Gramophone Analogy: It used a kinetic trigger to instantly convert mechanical energy into a specific, predetermined acoustic playback through a brass horn.
