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Thomas Edison’s favorite invention: the phonograph for recording and playback of audio. 1877.

January 29, 2021 by Blogfinger

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.

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