On a recent trip to New Jersey, we found ourselves a few miles from the site of Thomas Edison’s museum. It included the factory, lab, library and home of the famous American inventor who brought the concept of recording audio into reality. In 1877, he invented the first phonograph, a device for recording and playing back sound. Originally, the wave forms were pressed into tinfoil on a grooved phonograph cylinder. Here is a look at some photos I took of “gear” in its infancy. Recording and playback technology sure has come a long way. I wonder what Mr. Edison would have thought of the mac laptop running Ableton Live? HA!
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