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...Among the things he invented, wholly or partly, were: moving pictures, the phonograph, the carbon telephone transmitter, the microphone, the mimeograph, an alkaline storage battery, the incandescent light (his favorite...
Half a century ago, an unknown inventor made a strange machine called the phonograph, and an amazed world of horse-cars and gas-lights heard itself speak. At once, this world acclaimed him the Great Wizard, and through ensuing years it watched with Elizabethan enthusiasm for his magical machines as one after another they emerged from Menlo Park. Either outright or in part, he gave to the seventies the telephone microphone, the phonograph, and the incandescent electric light; to the eighties, the trolley car and the dynamo; and to the 'nineties, the cinema. With the turn of the century...
...method; practice, not theory. No dilettante, he plunged into a project with sleeves rolled, working almost without rest for days and nights together until he made the lamp filament glow, until he made the phonograph talk. "Genius is nine-tenths perspiration," he believed...
Naivete, First words the first phonograph spoke were...
...phonograph...