The Talking Machine

Thomas Alva Edison’s phonographs were first manufactured in 1878 and are sought-after collectors’ items. Edison’s phonograph first used tinfoil-covered cylinders that played for only two minutes. By 1885 Alexander Graham Bell, his cousin Chichester Bell, and Charles Tainter had applied for a patent for a graphophone that used wax-coated cylinders, which provided better sound. In […]