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Edison Home Phonograph

Thomas A. Edison invented his first phonograph in 1877. The sound was recorded on tinfoil around a grooved cylinder.

Despite its limited sound quality and that the recordings could be played only a few times, the phonograph made Edison a celebrity. Although Edison obtained a patent for the phonograph in 1878, he did little to develop it until Alexander Graham Bell and others produced phonograph-like device in the 1880s that used wax-coated cardboard cylinders.

 

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Uploaded on February 11, 2021
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