Does anyone know where the jukebox first got its name from?
Collectors and amateur historians have often been asked, why the object of their hobby is called a jukebox. In other words; where did the word jukebox come from? There have of course over the years been several suggestions as to the origin of the term, but no one really knows for a fact where the strange word jukebox came from in the first place. History 1888-1913 The first steps to make the modern electrically amplified multi-selection phonographs possible were taken in the late 1880’s in London by Charles Adams-Randall (1888) and especially in San Francisco by Louis Glass and William S. Arnold (1889). The coin-op automatic phonographs, known today as jukeboxes, have over the years turned out to be among the most hard to kill cultural phenomena..The very early European and American history of the phonograph is still not quite elucidated, as new information concerning the pioneers Léon Scott de Martinville, Charles Cros, Thomas Alva Edison, and especially Frank Lambert, has been found
