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Feb 11, 1847Inventor Thomas Edison is born in Milan, Ohio. Among his creations: the motion picture and the phonographAug 12, 1877Thomas Edison uses the phonograph to make the very first sound recording, a rendition of "Mary Had A Little Lamb"Nov 21, 1877Thomas Edison announces the invention of a "Talking Machine," the phonographDec 7, 1877Thomas Edison signs a patent application for a tinfoil phonograph, then goes to the New York offices of the technical journal Scientific American to demonstrate itDec 24, 1877Thomas Edison files for a patent on a phonograph that uses a disc, rather than tinfoil, to record. Edison discounts the disc, however, and devotes his energies to a model that incorporates a wax cylinderFeb 19, 1878Thomas Edison receives a patent for his invention: the phonographApr 24, 1878Inventor Thomas Edison opens the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company in West Orange, New Jersey, to sell dictation equipment to businesses, an early development in what becomes the recording industryOct 5, 1886Having been distracted nearly a decade by work on electrical lighting systems, Thomas Edison returns to work on the phonograph, conducting his first experiment on a new model that records on a wax cylinder. His first model in 1877 had used tinfoilSep 30, 1887Thomas Edison forms the Edison Phonograph Company to market his new machine that records on wax cylinders. The first models retail for $85, $100 and $130. Edison envisions the phonograph as a business dictation machine--not for entertainmentNov 11, 1887Ten years after he patented his first "talking machines," which recorded sound on tinfoil, Thomas Edison finishes a new phonogram that uses a wax cylinder
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