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Thomas Edison and His Phonograph, 1878
Mathew Brady1878-04
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
In 1877, Thomas Edison and his laboratory assistants created a machine that could - for the first time - record and reproduce sound. Called the phonograph, it made Edison an overnight celebrity. While in Washington D.C. to present to the National Academy of Sciences in 1878, Edison sat with his phonograph for well-known Civil War photographer Mathew Brady.
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- Title: Thomas Edison and His Phonograph, 1878
- Creator: Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896, Cade, J. J.
- Date: 1878-04
- Location: United States, District of Columbia, Washington
- Subject Keywords: Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931, Inventions, Inventors, Phonographs, Photographic prints, Photographs, Portraits
- Type: Photographs
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Object Name: Photographic print
- Object ID: 84.1.1630.P.188.20340
- Inventor: Thomas Edison
- Invention: Phonograph
- Image ID: THF123467
- Field: Sound
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
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