ABSTRACT
An organization established in Washington, D.C., in January 1886 (incorporated on 3 Feb 1886) by Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, and Charles Sumner Tainter. It was a successor to the Volta Laboratory Association, established by the same men in 1881. Acoustic and electrical research was the object of the Volta Laboratory, and the Graphophone their principal product-which gave its name to the new company. Volta Graphophone Co. held the key Bell-Tainter patents, which it licensed to the new American Graphophone Co., established on 28 Mar 1887.
