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  1. Invented just a year earlier, the telephone converted sound waves into an electrical current that was just strong enough to energize a delicate electromagnet. By using the electromagnet to vibrate a steel stylus, Edison hoped to inscribe a record of the original sound wave into the wax.

  2. Jul 18, 2017 · "Phonograph" notes and drawings, September 7, 1877. National Park Service. SEPTEMBER— Edison sketched this amazing series of forgotten phonograph designs in his quest to imagine various means of recording. Look closely and you’ll see several methods of registering sound waves, including embossing, mechanical, and electro-chemical solutions.

  3. The Disc Phonograph and the Edison Discs were designed to be an entire system, incompatible with other discs or disc players. The new Edison Disc Phonograph was shown for the first time publicly at the Fifth Annual Convention for the National Association of Talking Machine Jobbers at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 10-13th, 1911.

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