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Edison’s Invention of the Phonograph. New Jersey inventor Thomas Edison was working on a system to record telegraph messages on strips of waxed paper in mid-1877 when, by his account, he came to believe he could record the telephone the same way. Invented just a year earlier, the telephone converted sound waves into an electrical current that ...
The Story of the Phonograph. Invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison, the phonograph was the first device able to reproduce recorded sound. This was achieved by recording the sound onto a sheet of tinfoil that was then wrapped around a rotating cylinder. A stylus, in response to sound vibrations, would then produce up-down and hill-dale grooves in ...
That changed in 1877 when Thomas Edison unveiled his phonograph. It wasn’t the first such device to record and play back audio, but it was the first generally reliable one: scratchy and nearly ...
Directly above: Thomas Edison's phonograph of 1877. The history of the earliest origins of recorded sound technology is being rewritten! Recent scholarship makes it clear that sound recording was invented twice: First by inventor Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1857 France, then 20 years later by Thomas Alva Edison in the United States.
The patent history of the phonograph, 1877-1912 : a source book. compiled, edited and annotated by Allen Koenigsberg. Brooklyn, NY : APM Press, c1991.
Jul 18, 2023 · Thomas Edison, an American inventor and entrepreneur, invented the phonograph in 1877.Driven by curiosity and a desire to apply scientific discoveries practically, Edison came up with the idea while working on improving the telegraph and telephone systems.
Apr 19, 2024 · Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf whose foremost accomplishments were the invention of the telephone (1876) and refinement of the phonograph (1886). He also worked on use of light to transmit sound, development of a metal detector, and heavier-than-air flight.
