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Thomas Edison and Tinfoil Phonograph
Photograph, Black and White
Matthew Brady Studio, Washington, DC
April 1878
23 x 18.5, cm
EDIS 64911 (14.650/1)
Edison National Historic Site
Photo credit: Matthew Brady
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During
the first months of 1878, Edison and his associates exhibited his
"talking machine" at his Menlo Park Laboratory in New
Jersey, at public gatherings in major cities, at the Smithsonian
Institution, on Capitol Hill, and at a White House audience with
President Rutherford B. Hayes. While in Washington, a proud Edison
had his portrait taken with a tinfoil phonograph at Matthew Brady's
photography studio.
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