On December 7, 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph at the New York City offices of the nation's leading technical weekly publication, Scientific American. The following report set off ...

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THE article from the Scientific American on the phonograph which is quoted in NATURE, vol. xvii. p. 190, concludes as follows:—“It is already possible, by ingenious optical contrivances ...

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