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Edison 'Fireside' phonograph, 1909. The world's first recording machine arose, like the telephone, from work on the telegraph. Developing a machine that recorded Morse code by indenting a paper strip, Thomas Edison (1847-1931) noticed that when running fast it produced distinctive noises. He adapted the idea to sound recording by wrapping tinfoil around a rotating drum and indenting it with a stylus which vibrated in sympathy with the sound.
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Science Museum/London/Great Britain
Unique Identifier
ART399537
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Image
Purpose
Public
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3504px × 2869px
Photo Credit
SSPL/Science Museum / Art Resource, NY
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1900-1909
American
Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931)
Invention
Phonograph