P HONOGRAP HS AN INTRODUCTION ave you heard of the phonograph It was an important invention It was the first machine that could record sound and play it back Thomas Edison invented many things from the lightbulb to the first movie The phonograph was one of his most famous inventions Learn how the phonograph works Do experiments Discover the invention of recorded sound for
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INNOVATORS OF THE PHONOGRAPH THOMAS EDISON efore Thomas Alva Edison became famous he was a scientist who experimented at home The invention that made Edison famous was the phonograph It was the first machine to record and play back
People called Edison the Wizard of Menlo Park They thought the phonograph was magical People used phonographs to listen to music for more than a hundred years The phonograph was Edison's favorite invention OTHER IMPORTANT PEOPLE EMILE BERLINER EDOUARD LEON ALEXANDER SCOTT DEMARTINVILLE GRAHAMBELL He invented a machine that He made the phonograph made pictures of sound that sound better by using wax could be read to record the sound He improved the phonograph He recorded on flat discs We still use flat records
