The Phonogram, Vol. 2:12 (1892-12)

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Record Details:

Title:
The Phonogram, Vol. 2:12
Date:
1892-12
Volume:
The Phonogram, Vol. 2:12
Leaf #:
00011
Language:
English
Subjects:
honograph,Telegraph,Telephone,"Phonograph History, Thomas Edison","North American Phonograph Company",NAPCo,"Sound Recording History
Collection:
Recorded Sound
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 20, 2022
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The Edison Phonograph Works Orange, N. J. It is with boundless admiration that we j n tj me tl witness the wonders which Mr. Thomas A. the machine Edison offers to our vision. The career fitted into ft of this remarkable man is too well known to repeat here. We all know how he ap- plied himself to the study of chemistry at eight years of age ; how at twelve he be- came editor, printer and newsboy, and at fifteen possessed a scientific library of some 900 volumes. Wo know that since that time he has brought to perfection many inventions, well conceived but im- perfectly developed by his predecessors, in the departments of electricity and mag- netism, adding fresh discoveries of his own. The most interesting and perhaps the most important invention at this period is the phonograph, which catches and records sounds in all variety and number. A gentleman not long since repeated to a Phonogram reporter an incident in tljje evolution of the phonograph which may be interesting to our readers. Busily en- gaged with many enterprises, Mr. Edison carried in his mind the idea of a machine that would talk. From time to time he would jot down sketches and memoranda, and one day he said to an old German who Mr. George F. Ballou.