Edison winter home in Ft. Myers, Fla. This is the living room. Light pours in from windows along the river-side from the west. Paul Goldfinger photo 1/21/21. Q2M.
Edison combined two technologies to create the phonograph in 1877 in New Jersey: the telegraph and the telephone.
Edison with an early version of the phonograph. Getty images. ©
The patent was received in 1878. Later Alexander Graham Bell improved on the phonograph.
FIONA APPLE “Across the Universe.” By Lennon-McCartney.
“Sounds of laughter shades of earth
Are ringing through my open views
Inciting and inviting me..”
Are ringing through my open views
Inciting and inviting me..”