Portrait photo c1877 of American inventor, scientist and businessman Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931) and his cylinder phonograph.
Portrait photo circa 1877 of American inventor, scientist and businessman Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931) and his cylinder phonograph. Edison was a prolific inventor who held more than 1,000 US patents and developed a string of devices such as the phonograph, the motion picture camera and the first practical, long-lasting electric light bulb. The phonograph, a device for recording and replaying sound, was the invention that first won him fame and he announced its existence on November 21 1877. Photo by Mathew B Brady / Levin C Handy.
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