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U.S. inventor. He had very little formal schooling. He set up a laboratory in his father's basement at age 10; at 12 he was earning money selling newspapers and candy on trains. He worked as a telegrapher (1862 - 68) before deciding to pursue invention and entrepreneurship. Throughout much of his career, he was strongly motivated by efforts to overcome his handicap of partial deafness. For Western Union he developed a machine capable of sending four telegraph messages down one wire, only to sell the invention to Western Union's rival, jay-gould, for more than $100,000. He created the world's first industrial-research laboratory, in Menlo Park, N.J. There he invented the carbon-button transmitter (1877), still used in telephone speakers and microphones today; the phonograph (1877); and the incandescent lightbulb (1879). To develop the lightbulb, he was advanced $30,000 by such financiers as j-p-morganand the Vanderbilts. In 1882 he supervised the installation of the world's first permanent commercial central power system, in lower Manhattan. After the death of his first wife (1884), he built a new laboratory in West Orange, N.J. Its first major endeavour was the commercialization of the phonograph, which alexander-graham-bellhad improved on since Edison's initial invention. At the new laboratory Edison and his team also developed an early movie camera and an instrument for viewing moving pictures; they also developed the alkaline storage battery. Although his later projects were not as successful as his earlier ones, Edison continued to work even in his 80s. Singly or jointly, he held a world-record 1,093 patents, nearly 400 of them for electric light and power. He always invented for necessity, with the object of devising something new that he could manufacture. More than any other, he laid the basis for the technological revolution of the modern electric world.
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What was the very first phonograph record?
1871 invented by Thomas Edison at the age of 24
Who invented the process for the first sound recording which used tin-wrapped cylinders that could be played on a phonograph?
Thomas Edison invented them and it was in 1896. :)
The first sounds recording was made on tin-wrapped cylinders that could be played on a phonograph who invented this process and when?
Thomas Edison
Who invented the 1st recording studio?
thomas edison was the first to ever inventg the recording studio. To find out more visit wikipedia.
Who invented the first sound recording on tin-wrapped cylinders that could be played on a phonograph?
Thomas Edison
Who was the first recording artist?
Thomas Edison
When was The First Sound Recording Was Made On A Tin Wrapped Cylinders That Could Be Played On A Phonograph invented?
Thomas Edison
Who Created The Voice Recorder?
"The first practical sound recording and reproduction device was the mechanical phonograph cylinder, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877 and patented in 1878" - from the wikipedia page on sound recording
The first sound recording was made on Tin- wrapped cylinders that could be played on a phonograph. Who invented this process?
Thomas Edison
Who was The first sound recording was made on tin wrapped cylinders that could be played on a phonograph who invented this process?
Thomas Edison
The first sound recording was made on tin wrapped cylinders who invented it and when?
Thomas Edison and his team created the tool in 1877
Who invented the process the first sound recording was made on tin wrapped cylinders that could be played on phonograph when?
thomas edison
