Museums of Technology

1896 Edison Phonograph

The first Edison Phonograph of 1896, using a tinfoil sheet wrapped around a rotating cylinder as the recording medium, in the Edison Science Museum. A stylus responding to sound vibrations produced an up and down or hill-and-dale groove in the foil.

Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Mon May 12, 2014
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