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Early Talking Machines After Edison - Audio Engineering Society  Sep 15, 2004 ... Education & Career ... 22, 1877, after Edison visited the New York offices of the journal Dec. 7 and demonstrated his machine in person. ... 7, 1878, to develop a talking clock using the phonograph, and visited the Ansonia...
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Jeopary Question, EDISON & THE PHONOGRAPH - TriviaBistro.com  Jeopardy Question: EDISON & THE PHONOGRAPH - On December 7, 1877 Edison demonstrated the phonograph to the editors of this journal.
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Edison demonstrates the phonograph | OUPblog  Dec 6, 2011 ... He was in the magazine's offices to demonstrate one of his newest ... December 6, 1877 ... While he cranked the handle on the device, inventor Thomas Edison watched the faces of the editors from the journal Scientific American. ... Arts & Humanities  History  Language  Law  Science & Medicine  Social...
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On This Day: Thomas Edison Successfully Tests Phonograph  On Dec. 6, 1877, Thomas Alva Edison made the first recording in his tinfoil cylinder phonograph, the invention that made him ... On Dec. 7, Edison brought the phonograph into the Scientific American offices in New York and demonstrated it.
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Phonograph - Wikipedia  The phonograph is a device invented in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of ... The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. ..... "In December, 1877, a young man came into the office of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, and placed before the editors a small, simple machine about which very few...
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Edison, Thomas Alva | Article | World Book Student  Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931), was one of the greatest inventors and technological ... He invented the first practical machine that could record and play back sound. .... These experiments led to the invention of his phonograph. ... Edison threw himself and his assistants into the complex work of developing a variety of...
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Edison's Electric Pen  For a detailed history of the invention and production of the electric pen and ... In November 1876 production of the pens was transferred to Western Electric in...
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About this Collection - Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion ...  Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze, January 7, 1894  The great train ... Prolific inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) has had a profound ... of their motion pictures to the U.S. Copyright Office at the Library of Congress. ... The extreme scarcity of early motion pictures makes these paper prints particularly valuable.
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donhenry@rentgrow4.ultranet.com (Asmith) Sun, 16 Jul 1995 21:55 ...  Stephen Crane A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package. ...... But Edison's greatest achievement came in 1879, when he invented the electric ...... I need your help, I say 'tween sobs, 'Cause I'll soon be listed in net.jobs. .... How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? None ...... Who's on first?
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Telephone Transmitter - The Edison Papers  When Edison began working on the telephone in 1876 he focused on the weak ... In Bell's transmitter, sound waves vibrated a permanent magnet that in turn set up ... In order to vary the resistance of the current, Edison decided to use carbon.
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Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze, January 7, 1894 / | Library ...  Title: Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze, January 7, 1894 /; Other Title ... Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress) .... a sneeze from the first taking of a pinch of snuff to the recover" using "eight-one prints ... is the earliest surviving "motion picture" registered for copyright at the Library of...
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The Talking Phonograph - Thomas Edison's invention of his tinfoil ...  Who said: Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest. ... I was never so taken aback in my life. ... From first hearing the playback of the now historic recorded words, Mary had a little ... Engraving of Tinfoil Phonograph, invented by Thomas Edison, his first design, as published.
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Motion Pictures - The Edison Papers  In doing so, he sought to design "an instrument that does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear." Edison's first design involved photographing a...
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Lighting A Revolution: Thomas Edison's Incandescent Lamp Patent  Image of Thomas Edison's incandescent lamp patent, 1880 ... This opening paragraph from Edison's patent application formally presented his light bulb invention to ... on 4 November 1879 and the patent was quickly granted on 27 January 1880. ... So he hurriedly filed an application based on the state of experiments in late...
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The Soundry: Timeline - Vernon Public Schools Academic Webserver  At his Menlo Park laboratory, Thomas Edison invented the first machine that could ... This phonograph had the capability to both play and record. ... In the summer of 1888 Thomas Edison announced that he had perfected the phonograph. ... It used a wax cylinder like with the graphophone but now there was a shaft to hold...
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Phonograph - Wikipedia  The phonograph is a device invented in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of ... In early acoustic phonographs, the stylus vibrated a diaphragm which ... Later improvements through the years included modifications to the turntable and .... Several inventors devised machines to record sound prior to Thomas...
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Tinfoil Phonograph - The Edison Papers  In July 1877, while developing his telephone transmitter, Edison conceived the idea of ... The first phonograph consisted of grooved cylinder mounted on a long shaft with a screw pitch of ten threads per inch and turned by a hand crank. ... of tones and overtones necessary to reproduce human speech had devised complex...
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The Making of America: Thomas Edison - Time  Jun 23, 2010 ... The invention of the phonograph made Edison world-famous  but it took him ... From the first, they thought it would be used to reproduce the human voice, but ... the indentations would move the attached diaphragm, which should ... but he could not let go of his conviction that it was destined for the office.
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Edison2 - Edison's invention of the phonograph grew out of his ...  In 1876, it was the subject of a patent dispute by two men: Alexander ... the basic technology in 1874, he did not believe the device was marketable. ... In the end, Bell triumphed over the courts but faced market competition from Edison. ... 1875 Western Union wrapped up the quadruplex court battles and gave Edison a new.
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show #2838 - Wednesday, December 25, 1996 - J! Archive  In 1926 the 1st household pop-up one of these was marketed by the McGraw Electric ... In Mel Torme's "The Christmas Song", folks are dressed up like these...
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Phonograph - Wikipedia  The phonograph is a device invented in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of ... In its later forms it is also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, ..... of meager means, not in a position to pay a machinist to build a working model, ..... The consoles were often equipped with better quality pick-ups.