The jukebox's origin dates back to the late nineteenth century. Louis Glass, an American phonograph manufacturer, was first to bring the public a machine that would play music as patrons inserted coins. This coin-operated phonograph, a modified version of Thomas Edison 's gramophone invented twelve years earlier, was introduced at the Royal Palace Saloon in San Francisco, California, in 1889. The first phonograph to offer a selection of several tunes was the Gabel Company's Automatic Entertainer in 1906. This machine was dominated by a large ear trumpet speaker and was five feet (1.5 m) high. Although the Automatic Entertainer was more sophisticated than Glass's gramophone, it was a cumbersome machine with poor sound quality. The Gabel Company ceased production of the machine in 1908. Dramatic advances in technology and the rise of popular culture in the early twentieth century are both reflected in the development of the jukebox. The invention of electrostatic...