Thomas Edison
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Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures. The merger of the
Edison, c. 1922
Edison in 1861
Group photo taken as a postcard of the employees in front of the factory at Edison's Newark Factory on Ward St in 1873. Edison is visible peeking out of the fourth floor window; he wrote that he was too busy working to come downstairs.
Edison with the second model of his phonograph in Mathew Brady's studio in Washington, D.C. in April 1878
Phonograph
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A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound.
Thomas Edison
…Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures. The merger of the Edison General Electric Company and the competitor Thomson-Houston Electric…
Emile Berliner with the first disk gramophone he developed, in Hanover, Germany
An Edison Standard Phonograph that uses wax cylinders
Wood engraving published in The Illustrated Australian News, depicting a public demonstration of new technology at the Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) on 8 August 1878.