Emile Berliner invented the flat record in 1887, a development on the previous cylindrical records invented by Thomas Edison in 1877, which could be made into a mould and reproduced allowing the mass production of the records we now recognise and remember. It was Berliner who's trademark was the dog listening to "His master's voice" on a gramophone
. (http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventions/a/gramophone.htm, accessed 28 March 2011)
The trademark was then passed on to Eldridge R. Johnson, and through him it became it's presently famed self.
In the blog of Sketch's Studios, the notion of voice recording being a photograph of sound is introduced in a quotation by Abbé Lenoir . This 'photograph' of the sound of the 19th century has, i think, just as potent an ability to allow escape into the past as does a photograph of the same time.
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