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Edison Standard Phonograph
paying cylinder #4113 valse caprice NO.1 (accordion solo) Frosini
excuse me for poor quality video... ,:-)
some work to be done soon on the motor...
The Thomas Edison Statue in Port Huron with the Blue Water Bridge in the background.
Wasn't much fun to take this shot, since it got very cold, windy and even started to snow. So I took only this photo that evening.
Edison’s mahogany cased phonograph named the “Moderne” was produced btw 1915 and 1918 - avail in mahogany or oak. This runs on a single spring motor. Price was $100 in 1915, $120 in 1918. This pre restoration examples is 42h x 21w x 22d.
From the Oldies but Goodies file ... this is the shot that got me interested in sepia / historic photography.
Taken with my old Canon A40 ... which had a pretty darn good sepia mode.
It's a picture of Thomas Edison's lab at Greenfield Village in Detroit, MI.
Happened upon this fascinating box! Though the contents need some upgrading, I'm daydreaming about finding action and use for it out in the world once again.
Know anything about it? Leave a comment, I'd love to learn more!
Thanks, Valerie
Thomas Edison's research labs in West Orange, NJ are fascinating, and beautifully run by the National Park Service. Edison wasn't some lone genius puttering away; by this point he had a large research staff and a well-oiled, state-of-the-art R&D operation.
This machine shop was powered by a single large (DC?) motor, with the individual machines belt-driven from an overhead power shaft. I imagine this is what machine shops had looked like since the industrial revolution, except that earlier ones would have been run from a central steam engine or a central watermill shaft instead of a central electric motor.
From this poster at the Figment FestivaL:
www.flickr.com/photos/22464446@N05/3620930534/in/set-7215...
Made for Cracked & Hooked who liked it so much.