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21st November 1877: Thomas Edison announces the phonograph
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:04:08
Publish Date: 2017-11-20 21:05:38
Description: On the 21st November 1877, American inventor Thomas Edison announced his phonograph, the world’s first practical machine that could record and play sound using a cylinder. Although Frenchman Charles Cros presented plans for a sound recording and reproduction machine called a paleophone earlier that year, the machine was never actually built. Edison made the first demonstration of his phonograph on the 29th November and patented it the following February. Within two decades it had spawned an entire industry built around the recording, distribution and sale of sound recordings. Edison’s original phonograph was developed as a result of experiments that aimed ...
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