#2: Front edge of case has minor lift of veneer; speaker screen fabric dusty.
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Original
Reference Types
Internet
Reference Comments
"Phonograph Cylinder," Wikipedia
Research Facts
The phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison; he patented it on 18 July 1877 as the first device for recording and playing sound; his first attempt was using telephone messages; his first test used waxed paper. Early cylinder machines of the late 1880s and 1890s were often sold with recording attachments. The ability to record as well as to play back sound was an advantage to cylinder phonographs over the competition from cheaper disc phonographs that began to be mass-marketed at the end of the 1890s, as the disc system machines could be used only to play back pre-recorded sound. Edison Records closed down in 1929, and Thomas Edison died in 1931. Accompanying this record player were 38 wax cylinders with lectures covering a variety of medical subjects.