Happy Birthday Phonograph


August 12 1877 Thomas Edison invents the phonograph. Still going….145 years.

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Got to give credit to Emile Berliner for inventing the flat disc back in 1889. That allowed for greatly increased production compared to Edison’s cylinders!

Not really today is the anniversary of the gramophone not the flat disc.

Berliner also in vented the microphone. 

Chicken or the egg, no.