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Happy Birthday Phonograph

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Thomas Edison's patent for the phonograph was granted on February 19, 1878, (the US patent anyway). It's funny to read the patent which is only two pages of text, four claims and one page of figures. I have read modern patents that take more than fifty pages to explain how an adjustment or ratio can be called an invention. I apologize if this has been posted before.
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Re: Happy Birthday Phonograph

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Thank you for sharing this historic document on this special day.

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Re: Happy Birthday Phonograph

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Happy Birthday, Phonograph! :)

(This is, of course, the first U.S. Patent for a talking machine. Recent research by Stephan Puille showed that Edison filed a Canadian patent slightly earlier. You can find that thread on this forum.)

February 19 also marks the granting (in 1895) of Berliner's perhaps most important U.S. Patent (No.534,543) upon which Berliner, Victor, and Columbia built an empire.
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Happy, happy birthday! :) :)

George P.

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Re: Happy Birthday Phonograph

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phonogfp wrote:Happy Birthday, Phonograph! :)

(This is, of course, the first U.S. Patent for a talking machine. Recent research by Stephan Puille showed that Edison filed a Canadian patent slightly earlier. You can find that thread on this forum.)

February 19 also marks the granting (in 1895) of Berliner's perhaps most important U.S. Patent (No.534,543) upon which Berliner, Victor, and Columbia built an empire.
Berliner1.png
Berliner2.png
Berliner3.png
Berliner4.png
Happy, happy birthday! :) :)

George P.
Even better.

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