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The Phonogram (1901-04)

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Record Details:

Title:
The Phonogram
Date:
1901-04
Volume:
The Phonogram (II), Issue 12
Leaf #:
00011
Language:
English
Subjects:
honograph,"Phonograph History, Thomas Edison","National Phonograph Company","Sound Recording History
Collection:
Recorded Sound
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 20, 2022
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your dream, think it over silently, carefully, secretly5 and do not give it a name or put it into words until it is ripe and rounded. So, above all things, you who are interested in Phono- graphs and who read my Phonograph Dreams, promptly and solemnly resolve (and as promptly acquit the resolu- tion), to buy an Edison Phonograph; and dream a dream or two yourself. Something might come of it. WHO HAS EVER HEARD OF A PHONO- GRAPH FIRE ALARM? A long way after George Ade. A Publicity Fable. There was Once a Western Fire Chief who had a Gen- eral Idea of Himself. He also knew his Business from the Ground Up. He heard of the Hall of Fame discus- sion and thought a Think. Taking himself by the Button Hole, he mused thusly. “See here George, What Is Life anyhow ? You Run with the Machine to Fires, and Consume your Vital Energy ; and when you die they send your Widow a Floral Piece done in Chrysanthemums and Immortelles with this motto ‘ Gone to His Last Fire ’ and that's the End. What I want is Fame! so’s to get my Name on a Slab along with Fulton, Morse, Peter Cooper and George Washington.” Being a Man of Action he immediately Acted. First he filed a Basic Patent, which also covered all Known and Unknown Combinations of Phonographs and all kinds of Talking machines with Telephones, Telegraphs and all kinds of transmitting Devices. For, he Argued,