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Edison's baby.(Phonograph)(Thomas Alva Edison and the phonograph)
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Whenever reporters asked Thomas Alva Edison to name his favorite invention, he always replied, "The phonograph." It was the only one of his more than 1,000 inventions that he ever referred to as "my baby." It was the first machine to record and play back sounds.
Edison had gotten his idea for recording sound while trying to improve on Alexander Graham Bell's telephone (see page 28). The telephone had been invented one year earlier, in 1876. Edison first concentrated on making a better mouthpiece, or transmitter. While working on ...
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