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Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, invented the phonograph (born 1847)
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Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Phonograph
Device for analogue recording of sound
A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound. The sound vibration waveforms are recorded as corresponding physical deviations of a helical or spiral…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)