Because the words were used by different inventors (sometimes as all or part of a brand name), the distinction is sometimes made where phonograph refers specifically to cylinder-based devices and gramophone to disk-based devices. read more
I've been reading about the Grammy award, and found that it was named after the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, after considering the name Eddie (for the phonograph's inventor, Thomas Edison). I didn't find what's the difference between the two. Sources also mix up the inventors of them. read more
In the UK, the term gramophone was the more popular name for disc players. One of the earliest producers there was “The Gramophone Company Limited”, founded in 1898. read more
As nouns the difference between gramophone and phonograph is that gramophone is (british|dated) a historic wind-up record player that acoustically reproduces sound from a disk rather than a cylinder record while phonograph is literally, a device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe. read more