Thomas Edison invented his tin-fail phonograph which played recorded sounds from round cylinders. While working on improving
the telegraph transmitter, he noted that weird sounds which sounded almost
human were given off by the tape of the machine when played at a high speed.
Edition. Who was probably record out of his senses before he realized that he
was a scientist and then with a new-found bravado, reasoned that he could
probably record a human voice. He experimented with the diaphragm of the
telephone receiver by attaching a needle to it and came to the obvious
deduction that the needle could prick paper tape to record a message. To
everyone’s surprise, this worked and was the first phonograph or recording
device. It was first marketed as a dictation device and was only later modified
for recording music.
In 1887, Emile Berliner put forward a successful
system of sound recording. Berliner was the first inventor to stop recording on
cylinders and start recording on flat disks or records.
Now if you were to
look up Thomas Edition you will be greeted by lots of people ranting about how
he is a thief and how he stole ideas and patented it for himself, and so was
more of a shrewd businessman other than a scientist. We recommend you to take
these opinions with a pinch of salt since anyone can write on the internet, and
soon you might find out that you in fact had invented the phonograph.
