Thomas Alva Edison
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Thomas Alva Edison Education
self educated, worked from teen years as telegraph operator and invented improvements on such
Thomas Alva Edison invention factory
received many patents in telegraphy and built the factory in Menlo Park NJ in 1870s
Thomas Alva Edison talking machine
invented talking machine on recording device in 1877 using tin cylinders and needle
1857 inventor of recording
Scott de Martinville
Scott De Martinville invention
device to record sound for the very first time, his phonautograph mimicked the structure of a human ear to scratch wavy lines on paper that had been blackened by soot of an oil lamp
Scott de Martinville heard recordings
not heard until 2007 by UC Berkley where they converted the sound by scientist Carl Haber and Earl Cornell
Edisons utilization of sound
did not utilize the sound for music, but rather a device for business to take dictation for secretaries
what was entered in the 1890s
manufacturing of hardware with cylinder recorder/players and the production and distribution of the software with commercially recorded wax cylinder records
