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Edison disk record

Edison disk record

Edison disk record

Thomas Edison invented the automatic repeater, duplex telephone, phonograph, the electric pen, the microphone, the megaphone, kinetoscope, the microtasimeter, and the quadruplex and sextuplex transmitters.

Thomas A. Edison

Thomas Edison invented the automatic repeater, duplex telephone, phonograph, the electric pen, the microphone,…

Edison talking into the phonograph.

Thomas Edison

Edison talking into the phonograph.

Edison talking into the phonograph.

Thomas Edison

Edison talking into the phonograph.

"Thomas Alva Edison was born at Milan, Ohio, February 11, 1847, but the family soon after moved to Port Huron, Michigan. He had to earn his living from early boyhood, and was a train boy on a railroad. A station master, whose child's life Edison had saved, taught the boy telegraphy, and in this art Edison quickly became an expert. In 1868 he chanced to be in New York when the indicator of a gold and stock company was broken, and he not only repaired it, but in doing so struck out a new invention, the printing telegraph. He sold his invention in 1876 and established himself at Menlo Park, New Jersey, where he built workshops for carrying out experiments in the application of electricity. It would take a very long paragraph even to name the devices and inventions which have followed, the most far-reaching being, perhaps, his system of electric lighting, his microphone, and the phonograph."—Scudder, 1897

Thomas Alva Edison

"Thomas Alva Edison was born at Milan, Ohio, February 11, 1847, but the family soon after moved to Port…

(1847-1931) Famous American inventor.

Thomas Alva Edison

(1847-1931) Famous American inventor.

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.

Thomas Alva Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman…

An illustration of a jester using a phone which is attached to a phonograph.

Jester & Phone

An illustration of a jester using a phone which is attached to a phonograph.

"A Phonograph is an instrument for recording and reproducing sounds, invented by Thomas A. Edison."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Phonograph

"A Phonograph is an instrument for recording and reproducing sounds, invented by Thomas A. Edison."—(Charles…

An instrument for recording and reproducing the vibrations of sound. It was invented by Thomas A Edison in 1877, and has been improved by him and other inventors.

Phonograph

An instrument for recording and reproducing the vibrations of sound. It was invented by Thomas A Edison…

Any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or discs.

Machine for Phonograph

Any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or discs.

Record player, phonograph or gramophone was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the late 1870s until the late 1980s.

Record Phonograph

Record player, phonograph or gramophone was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the…

Machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically

Record Phonograph

Machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically…