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Rare card · Science
Phonograph, a Rare card
A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 92
- Power
- 174
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 280,000
Power 174 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Phonograph quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Phonograph card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the ____s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound.
Answer
1940s. A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound. From the Phonograph article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Gentrification. Gentrification 90 · John Dewey 87 · Phonograph 82 · Hippocrates 77 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The sound vibration waveforms are recorded as corresponding physical deviations of a helical or spiral groove engraved, etched, incised, or impressed into the surface of a rotating cylinder or disc, called a record.
- To recreate the sound, the surface is similarly rotated while a playback stylus traces the groove and is therefore vibrated by it, faintly reproducing the recorded sound.
- In early acoustic phonographs, the stylus vibrated a diaphragm that produced sound waves coupled to the open air through a flaring horn, or directly to the listener's ears through stethoscope-type earphones.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Phonograph article was read about 280,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 92: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Phonograph
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Phonograph in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- The InternationaleRare · Arts · ATK 85 DEF 89
- TiëstoRare · Arts · ATK 82 DEF 92
- Dizzy GillespieRare · Arts · ATK 78 DEF 96
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Phonograph (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Levin C. Handy (per http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.04326 ), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
