Invention of the Phonograph

Gramophone
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Several inventors devised machines to record sound prior to Thomas Edison's phonograph, Edison being the first to invent a device that could both record and reproduce sound.

Prototyped, 1877
Related People & Organizations
Alexander Graham Bell, Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory made several improvements in the 1880s and introduced the graphophone
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Scientific American - Thomas Alva Edison demonstrated his new invention at the offices of Scientific American
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