In the 1880s, the record industry began by simply having the artist perform at a phonograph. In 1924, the trade journal Talking Machine World, covering the phonography and record industry, reported that Eddie King, Victor Records' manager of the "New York artist and repertoire department", had planned a set of recordings this perhaps the earliest printed use of A&R man. Actually, it says neither "A&R man" nor even "A&R", an name perhaps coined by Billboard magazine in 1946, and entering wide use in the late 1940s