The phonograph was developed as a result of Thomas Edison's work on two other inventions, the telegraph and the telephone. In 1877, Edison was working on a machine that would transcribe telegraphic messages through indentations on paper tape, which could later be sent over the telegraph repeatedly.

2018年5月2日 · Thomas Edison achieved widespread early fame by inventing the phonograph and startling the public by demonstrating a machine that could talk.

2015年2月26日 · No one is really sure just how Edison lost most of his hearing. Yet this man invented the first machine that could capture sound and play it back. In fact, the phonograph was his favorite invention.

2024年6月12日 · Thomas Edison, shown here with an early model of his phonograph, became an international sensation with his invention of a sound-recording machine. This prototype, the Edison Experimental Recording Phonograph, is recognized as a world-changing invention.

2009年11月16日 · On February 19, 1878, Thomas Edison is awarded U.S. Patent No. 200,521 for his invention—the phonograph. The technology that made the modern music business possible came into existence in the...

Of all his inventions, Thomas A. Edison was most fond of the phonograph. As a result of his work on two other inventions, the telegraph and the telephone, Edison happened upon a way to record sound on tinfoil-coated cylinders in 1877.

Edison’s phonograph was the first machine to both record sounds and play them back. Edison arrived at the invention through his work on the telephone, independent of the work of Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville and Charles Cros.

When compared with Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville's cylinder phonautograph of 1859, Thomas Edison’s cylinder phonograph of 1877 may seem obvious in design and function. In hindsight today, one might assume that Edison's idea came to the inventor fully-formed.

New Jersey inventor Thomas Edison was working on a system to record telegraph messages on strips of waxed paper in mid-1877 when, by his account, he came to believe he could record the telephone the same way.

Edison’s 1877 invention of the tinfoil phonograph, the first machine that could record and reproduce sound, astonished the world and made him an international celebrity.