Thomas Edison's Phonograph

Thomas Edison invented the Phonograph in 1877, a machine that could record sound onto a piece of tinfoil and play it back. Alexander Graham Bell improved the device in the 1880s using wax-coated cardboard cylinders.

This is a recording of Thomas Edison reciting "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in 1929.

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