Time special Edison issue

[JohnM]

Has anyone seen the new Time special publication 'Thomas Edison - His Electrifying Life'? My wife picked up a copy at the grocery store for me. Open to the first page . . . okay, they spelled his name right. That's a good sign! Open the next page and there's a full-page photo of Edison recording onto a Business Phonograph. The caption reads: "Edison speaks into the recording tube of a graphophone, a dictation device based on the phonograph." Well, that didn't take long. The media NEVER gets the phonograph stuff right. Ever. In the early 1990's, I read a quote from a book in Time magazine that I thought I'd like to read. I couldn't find the book at the bookstore nor through the local library, so I wrote T/L and asked where I might find the book they quoted from. I received a letter back on the small stationery telling me that they couldn't help me and to try my local bookstore or library. I wrote them a scathing response regarding not being able to back up their sources. I guess I'll turn to the next page of their Edison special and see what lies ahead . . . .

[phono-smitten]

A few weighed in on the inaccuracies here: http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... =2&t=12390

[JohnM]

Thanks! Somehow missed that thread. 'Nuf sed.