Phonograph

time Philo began to ask questions, accordingly his parents answered as best as they could, he was very interested in mechanics and electricity. As he grew up, he was mesmerized with the hand-cranked telephone Thomas Edison had made and hand-cranked phonograph that Alexander Graham Bell had made. They were his new heroes. Trying for a better life, the Farnsworth family moved from Utah to Idaho. Philo had observed that his parent’s home was wired for electricity! He also scrutinized that the…

Therefore, they need the help of their savior, the superior French, to bring civilization and salvation to them, also bringing personal motives. In the 1912 L’illustration collection, an image of Albert Sarraut, the governor of Indochina, plays the phonograph for the natives of a village (Appendix A).…

Thomas Edison was an amazing man, and did amazing things for the world and America. He was an inventor who worked mainly with electricity and things that will help people with everyday things. He started out small and then he grew as a business and was one of the best inventors people say. And he works with all of this stuff to make him more determined and he had his mind set on this stuff. If Thomas Edison didn’t do what he did the world wouldn’t be the same as it is now. Thomas Edison was…

The theme for this story ‘Invisible Man’ can be of different things according to different people of course. But what I believe of what this theme is, it can be that the man is just trying to explain how it is to be him. By explaining, he is just stating a few examples, sometimes ‘jokes’ in his explanations. He begins to say how it can be an advantage for him, as in what he would be able to do. Of course he isn’t actually invisible, as he states in the beginning, “Nor is my invisibility exactly…

New Orleans by African American communities. A predominate, well-known African American artist, Louis Armstrong, greatly influenced this genre. Jazz broke many “racial barrier” with the help of Armstrong and his participation in mixed-race bands. Phonograph records and radios were selling Jazz playlists by the billions, showing that music was really becoming a major hit and it sought the attention of many. Drinking was illegal during this time but prohibition was very much ignored. People spent…

Three decades after 1860, the number of patents grew to 144,000. The most notable is the invention of the light bulb, the motion picture camera, microphone, phonograph, the elevator, the typewriter, and the…

Thomas Edison was one of the greatest inventors and entrepreneurs of the Gilded Age, bringing forth great changes in our society many years ago. Some may be wondering why someone would say this, primarily knowing Edison as the inventor of the modern day lightbulb, but there is more to the inventor than meets the eye upon further examination. Entrepreneurs are defined by the Edison Innovation Foundation as “agents of change”, who create products and services for the world, thus creating massive…

his invention was displayed on American soil and it would greatly improve the convenience of communication. Another well-known inventor in attendance was Thomas Edison. Mr. Edison previewed a few of his inventions, but the most well-known was his phonograph; this was the first device that successfully recorded sound. Unbeknownst to many of the attendees and possibly the inventors, both of these inventions would eventually become a vital aspect of daily life in later decades. Over one hundred…

His favorite invention was the phonograph(it was published in 1877), it was also the first one that he created. It played music because he planned on making a movie. His second invention was the light bulb he(published it in 1879), it definitely changed everyone’s life and his. Edison invented…

He gave a demonstration before the United States Congress and then to the president of the United States, who at the time was Rutherford B. Hayes. It was around this time that people began to call him "the Wizard of Menlo Park." The phonograph would, of course become the foundation of the multi-billion-dollar musical recording industry."(Adair 63) Everything the Edison invented he did so because it was practical at that time. He tried to only create things that were in demand. For instance…