TALKING MACHINE
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDISON ANTICIPATED? ",i j Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright PARIS, Monday. The 50th anniversary of the invention of the talking machine was celebrated to-day in France. It is officially claimed in this country that Charles
Cros, a Parisian resident, anticipated Edison in patenting the phonograph. Cros is said to have deposited a sealed description of the mechanism of his invention six months before the American inventor. The Frenchman was of a Bohemian disposition, however, and died in poverty 10 years later. —A. and N Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 34, 3 May 1927, Page 9
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