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1877

Edison Invents the Phonograph

1877 | August 12: Thomas Alva Edison finished the model of a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders, inventing the “phonograph” in Menlo Park , New Jersey.


Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)


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