"The, uh, first words I spoke in the original phonograph: a little piece of practical poetry: Mary had a little lamb. Its fleece was white as snow, and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go."
This is a recording of Thomas Edison's own voice, explaining what he first recorded on the working model of his phonograph in 1877. He recorded the first two lines of the nursery rhyme and said that he was greatly surprised when it actually played back.
Some words using the prefix "phono" are phonograph, phonology, and phonetics.
phonograph. photograph.
· phonogram · phonograph · phonographic
phonograph telephone cacophony
Any of the words that end in graph fit this: graph, phonograph, telegraph
tangled
The first words successfully recorded by Edison when testing the phonograph were "Mary had a little lamb." This was on a tinfoil-wrapped cylinder recorder. Edison announced the invention on November 21, 1877.
Words beginning with phon: * phonation * phone * phonetics * phonemic * phoneme * phony * phonic * phonograph
Phonograph ("sound writing") was derived from the Greek words φωνή (meaning "sound" or "voice" and transliterated as phonē) and γραφή (meaning "writing" and transliterated as graphē).
Please see the lyrics to Bob Dylan's "Tangled Up in Blue" in the related link.
phonics, telephone, phonetics, telephonist, homophone,
"Mary had a little lamb" were the first words successfully recorded by Edison when testing the phonograph. Edison made the recording in his tinfoil cylinder phonograph, the invention that made him famous in 1877.