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   Thomas Edison

   Birthplace of Thomas Edison ... In 1877–1878, Edison invented and developed the carbon microphone used in all telephones along with the Bell receiver until the 1980s.
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   Phonograph cylinder

   The Edison company then developed their own type of long lasting cylinder, consisting of a type of plastic called Amberol(which was blue in color) around a plaster core;(the plastic was a phenolic resin, similar to the then contemporary "Bakelite") these were called Blue Amberol cylinders, the earlier Amberols being made of wax. ... The three surviving Edison cylinders on the National Recording Registry with descriptions, audio and transcripts.
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   Disc jockey

   In 1877, Charles Cros invented the phonograph in France (it was patented before Edison's invention but never built) and Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph cylinder, the first device to play back recorded sound, in the United States. ... In 1929, Thomas Edison ceased phonograph cylinder manufacture, ending the disc and cylinder rivalry.
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   Edison Records

   Thomas A. Edison invented the phonograph, the first device for recording and playing back sound, in 1877. ... | Founder | Thomas Edison Jesse H. Lippincott |
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   Timeline of musical events

   This page indexes the individual year in music pages. ... 1877 in music - Phonograph and phonograph cylinder invented by Thomas Alva Edison
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   American popular music

   Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph cylinder kicked off the birth of recorded music. ... [Expression error: Missing operand for > "Is This the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll?: The Deborah Chessler Story"].
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   Phonograph

   Edison cylinder phonograph ca. 1899 Thomas Edison and his early phonograph
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   Backmasking

   Backmasking (also known as backward masking) is a recording technique in which a sound or message is recorded backward onto a track that is meant to be played forward. ... In 1877 Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, a device that allowed sound to be recorded and reproduced on a rotating cylinder with a stylus (or "needle") attached to a diaphragm mounted at the narrow end of a horn.
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   Dictation machine

   Shortly after Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, the first device for recording sound, in 1877, he thought that the main use for the new device would be for recording speech in business settings. ... Wax cylinder (1890s)
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    1894 in film

    January 7 - Thomas Edison films his assistant, Fred Ott sneezing with the Kinetoscope at the "Black Maria." ... Thomas Edison experiments with synchronizing audio with film; the Kinetophone is invented which loosely synchronizes a Kinetoscope image with a cylinder phonograph.

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