ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL’S SUBURBAN RESIDENCE AT WASHINGTON, D. C.
EDISON, THE MASTER INVENTOR
THE EDISON HOUSE AT MILAN, OHIO
Here Thomas A. Edison was born on February 11, 1847.
Never has there been an American inventor who has contributed more abundantly than Thomas Alva Edison to the republic’s industrial expansion, nor one who has achieved greatness under a heavier handicap of early disadvantages. Born (1847) of a poor family in an obscure Ohio canal village, Edison began his career at the age of twelve in the occupation of a railway newsboy.
THE FIRST PHONOGRAPH
It was with this machine that Edison in 1877 originally demonstrated the fact that sound could be recorded and reproduced.