Phonograph

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 Wednesday November 21, 1877
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Category
inventions
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United States
Description
device for recording and replaying sound

Several inventors devised machines to record sound but Edison being the first to invent a device that could both record and reproduce sound

Thomas Edison announced his invention of the first phonograph, a device for recording and replaying sound, on November 21, 1877, and he demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29, it was patented on February 19, 1878.

 Alexander Graham Bell's made several improvements in the 1880s and introduced the graphophone.

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