# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-sumner-tainter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:56:56.684Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-sumner-tainter"
name: "Charles Sumner Tainter"
slug: "charles-sumner-tainter"
description: "Charles Sumner Tainter was an American scientific instrument maker, engineer and inventor, best known for his collaborations with Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, Alexander's father-in-law Gardiner Hubbard, and for his significant improvements to Thomas Edison's phonograph, resulting in the Graphophone, one version of which was the first Dictaphone."
tagline: "American inventor and businessman (1854–1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Sumner_Tainter.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1854-04-25"
deathDate: "1940-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4696132596685083
  historical:           12.48031066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump