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Thomas Edison National Historical Park
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International Correspondence School-Spanish lesson #9
Record format: Edison Gold Moulded cylinder
Release date: c. 1902
NPS object catalog number: EDIS 38902 - a

Siegel-Myers School of Music - Vocal Record F
Record format: Edison Gold Moulded cylinder
Release date: c. 1906
NPS object catalog number: EDIS 103642

Ediphone School Record No. 2 - 90 WPM - 1
Record format: Edison business cylinder for office dictation
Release date: c. 1943

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Thomas Alva Edison looking straight at the camera.  

Did You Know?
In 1920 Thomas Edison told reporter B.F. Forbes that he was working on a machine that could make contact with the spirits of the dead. Newspapers all over the world picked up this story. After a few years, Edison admitted that he had made the whole thing up.

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