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Two Pioneer Talking Machines

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“On This Day in the History of Recorded Sound…”

December 27, 1889: Thomas A. Edison filed for a U.S. patent for a water-powered phonograph motor. Although a failure in the marketplace, Edison chose them as presentation machines for Czar Alexander III and pianist Josef Hofmann. For more: https://forum.antiquephono.org/topic/82 ... mment-3739

December 27, 1887: Charles Sumner Tainter was granted a U.S. patent (No.375,579) for “Apparatus for Recording and Reproducing Speech and Other Sounds.” The treadle-powered machines illustrated would be short-lived, but the upper works design would persist on Graphophones through the mid-1890s. For more: https://forum.antiquephono.org/topic/62 ... mment-2999

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Thanks for sharing.
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You’re welcome, Ken.

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