The phonograph was developed as a result of Thomas Edison's work on two other inventions, the telegraph and the telephone. In 1877, Edison was working on a machine that would transcribe telegraphic messages ... Millard, Andre. America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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Photograph of Thomas A. Edison listening to the New Edison Diamond Disc Phonograph. Advertisement in The Gramophone, December 1923. ... Frow, George L. The Edison Disc Phonographs and the Diamond Discs: A History with Illustrations. Kent, U.K.: Flo-Print, 1982.
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Phonograph Record Technologies from their invention to the death of 78-rpm records ... Before the Phonograph ... There was sound recording before the phonograph, but not sound reproduction. In 1856 or '57, years before the invention of the phonograph, French inventor Leon Scot demonstrated the Phonoautograph system for...
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The phonograph was developed as a result of Thomas Edison's work on two other inventions - the telegraph and the telephone.
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1877 - Edison made the first recording of a human voice ("Mary had a little lamb") on the first tinfoil cylinder phonograph Dec. 6 (the word "Halloo" may ... Oct. 19, 1896. 1894 - in December, Guglielmo Marconi made radio history when at the age of 20 he invented his spark transmitter with antenna at his home in Bologna, Italy.
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Click here for turntable history page 2. ... In reproducing a phonograph record, the aim is to take out of the groove exactly the intelligence that was pressed into them. And the wiggles in the groove are meaningless in themselves.
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A frames compatible browser is required to view this page ... ; Main Page; Edison's Biography; Prior to the Phonograph; The Invention; Effects on Society; Sound Clips; Phonograph Gallery; Links and References; ... Edison with his First Phonograph...
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The technology that led to the phonograph came from developments that Edison made in the telegraph and telephone. Edison at the time was experimenting with how a moving diaphragm linked to a coil, could produce a voice modulated signal. ... However, it's not unusual for history to get things "twisted".......
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Besides the light bulb, Edison developed the phonograph and the "kinetoscope," a small box for viewing moving films. He also improved upon the original design of the stock ticker, the telegraph, and Alexander Graham Bell's telephone.
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