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ates: — "Let us try to develop an instrument which will be so perfect that its reproduction of music cannot be detected from the original music."
Although, on previous occasions, they had seen Mr. Edison achieve the seemingly impossible, his subordinates shook their heads this time, as they believed he had, for once, undertaken what would prove impossible, even for an Edison, to accomplish. So it seemed for a considerable time — a number of years, in fact. However, Mr. Edison was not discouraged. He worked night and day. Literally thousands of new and unheard of experiments were tried. Problems of acoustics and chemistry, for which no solutions were known, had to be solved. Perhaps it is not too much to say that there is probably no living inventor, except Thomas A. Edison, who would not have surrendered his ideals in the face of the seemingly insurmountable obstacles which were encountered in this, now famous, scientific struggle for musical perfection in the phonograph. Success did not reward his efforts until Mr. Edison had spent more than three million dollars in research work, but complete success did finally come. One day Mr. Edison, tired and disheveled, but triumphant, pointed to an instrument and said to his men of business: — 'Tve got it. That gives the true result. Try it against the human voice and see if you can tell the difference."
The model to which Mr. Edison so proudly pointed on that musically historic day is now known as "The Official Laboratory Model, The Three Million Dollar Phonograph." Duplicates of this three million dollar phonograph, encased in artistic period cabinets and made from the choicest woods by skilful furniture craftsmen, can be bought by you today. Thus has