Thomas Edison filed for a patent for the phonograph on December 24, 1877 and the patent was issued on February 19, 1878. The original phonograph was invented and patented by French Inventor, Edouard-Leon Scott in 1857. He called his device the phonautograph. His invention made a recording of sound waves on a glass plate, but it was not able to play back the sounds. More
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