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    • Jun 23, 1848
    Setting the stage for Boots Randolph, inventor Antoine Joseph Sax patents the saxophone in France
    Apr 4, 1850
    The city of Los Angeles is incorporated. It becomes a major music center, a home to such acts as Gene Autry and Dwight Yoakam, and a recording site for the likes of Buck Owens, Glen Campbell, Merle Haggard and Bob Wills
    Aug 12, 1877
    Thomas Edison uses the phonograph to make the very first sound recording, a rendition of "Mary Had A Little Lamb"
    Nov 21, 1877
    Thomas Edison announces the invention of a "Talking Machine," the phonograph
    Dec 24, 1877
    Thomas 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 cylinder
    Feb 19, 1878
    Thomas Edison receives a patent for his invention: the phonograph
    Apr 24, 1878
    Inventor 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 industry
    Jul 4, 1882
    Buffalo Bill Cody presents a Wild West show in North Platte, Nebraska. The concept serves as a precursor to the singing cowboys of Hollywood
    Oct 5, 1886
    Having 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 tinfoil
    Sep 30, 1887
    Thomas 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 entertainment



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