Edison and His Inventions :: Ohio Memory Collection

Title	Edison and His Inventions
Subject	Science and Technology Phonograph Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
Place	Milan (Ohio) Erie County (Ohio) Ohio (entire state)
Description	Written in 1879, when Edison was only 32 years old and just gaining an international reputation, Edison and His Inventions chronicles the inventor's life and his work. It provides detailed explanations of his inventions intended to give the layman an understanding of the structure of the machines and how they worked. Interest in Edison's technological advances was widespread; his latest developments were topics for daily conversation. Selections digitized here include descriptions of Edison's phonograph, electric pen, telephone, and electric light. The book is 171 pages and measures 6" x 8.5" (15.24 x 21.6 cm).
Creator	McClure, J.B.
Date of Original	1879
Source	Published material TK140.E3 M2 1879
Submitting Institution	Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
Type	Text

Title	Om709_915100_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om709_915100_001.tif
Image Height	3283
Image Width	2172
File Size	648.661 KB
Full Text	AND IIJS INVENTIONS. n -; ? -^- '^4-<- - -ii"C..V. 2v.) •^ '^ \ «, a :. \ nogi".- The Phonograph, The Edison and Faber "Talking Machikes"—Phonograph Full¥ Explained—Its Fi0Ei,rrY ih Re-producing Sound— What We May Exfect F&om It. No invention in the world's histar)' has engendered more curi¬ osity than the Phonograph, And yet of all, it may be considerecj among the most simple as well as singular. Efforts were made long ago to produce a " talking machine" but they were attended with no great degree of success. The organs of speech were well imitated by excellent mechanisms ami vibrations were pro¬ duced which gave out a sound similar to the human voice, but it was after all only a species of the pipe organ, and too compli¬ cated and expensive to be of any pracdcal value. By an entirely different principle, in which the vibrations of the voice are com¬ municated at once upon a metalic surface, becoming thereby

Find results with:

	All
	Pages Enter page numbers or page ranges separated by commas. For example: 1,3,5-12