Many are aware that American inventor Thomas Edison was responsible for the electric light bulb, for development of the motion picture and telephone; but did you know that it was Edison who invented the record player?...
Early audiences of Edison's phonograph must have been enamoured at the sounds emanating from his invention. To be capable of listening to a human voice, or popular musical arrangement after turn a handle to a clock-work turntable must have seemed like a right wind-up!