Frances M. Rhodes Elementary

Northside Independent School District

Thomas Edison

Phonograph Record

Name of Inventor: Thomas Edison

 

Date of Birth: Feb. 11 1847

 

Where was he/she born?  Milan Ohio

 

Name of Invention: Phonograph Record

 

Year of Invention: 1879

 

Place of Invention: Menlo Park, New Jersey

 

How did this device change communication? First machine to save sounds and to replay them.

 

Why was the device important to future communication?

The first invention that could now record sounds to play now or later.

 

Interesting Information: Edison  invented  1093  different things.

Including the light bulb, movie cameras and electric generator

 

Credits:

1.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/
communication.shtml

2.
http://www.imahero.com/../../herohistory/alva_
herohistory.htm

3.
http://www.thomasedison.com/Inventions.htm

Books:
4.
Adler, David. "A Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edison.
"New York: Holiday House, 1996
5.
Cefrey, Holly. "The Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison,
Father of the Light Bulb and the Motion Picture Camera."
New York: Rosen Publishing Group,2003

 

1.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/
communication.shtml

2.
http://www.imahero.com/../../herohistory/alva_
herohistory.htm

3.
http://www.thomasedison.com/Inventions.htm

Books:
4.
Adler, David. "A Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edison.
"New York: Holiday House, 1996
5.
Cefrey, Holly. "The Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison,
Father of the Light Bulb and the Motion Picture Camera."
New York: Rosen Publishing Group,2003

Communication
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