How the Phonograph was Invented.
-» Edison had his finger pricked when speaking into the telephone, henoe the invention of the phono* graph. The incident is desoribed in tho Life and Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison, published by Chatto and Windus. "I discovered the principle by the merest accident," states Mr Edison. " I was singing to the mouthpieoe of a telephone, when the vibrations of the voioe I sent tha five steel point into my
finger. That set ms to thinking. Iflcouldrecottlthe actions of the L. point, and send the point over the w same surface afterwards. I Ba W no teasott Why the thing fould not talk. I tried the experltifclttt first on a strip of telegraph paper, and found that the point made an alphabet. I shouted the words 1 Halloo t Halloo V into the mouthpiece, ran the paper over the steel point, and heard a faint ' Halloo 1 Halloo!' in return. I determined to make a machine that would work accurately and gave my assistants instructions, telling them what I had discovered. They laughed at me. That is the whole story.
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Manawatu Herald, 31 January 1895, Page 2
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184How the Phonograph was Invented. Manawatu Herald, 31 January 1895, Page 2
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