covah
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Post by covah on Jun 1, 2009 14:12:54 GMT -5
Friends,
I heard once why there is a nearly twenty-year gap between the invention of the phonograph and its production. Now I forgot.
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Post by maroongem on Jun 1, 2009 17:08:57 GMT -5
From what I've read over the years, Edison ceased work on the Phonograph after the tinfoil craze died down and I think it was more of a 10 yr gap until he again concentrated on his invention. Emil Berliner's disc Gramophone may have been an impetus for Edison to concentrate again on his "baby" as he called it.
Bill
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Post by martinola on Jun 1, 2009 19:10:18 GMT -5
Just to elaborate on Bill's story a little: Edison's big distraction in 1879 was the work he did on the Electric Lamp and the infrastructure related to its exploitation. It wasn't until 1883 or '84 when Tainter and Bell's work on the Graphophone spurred Edison into developing the wax cylinder phonograph. Edison again took a break when the North American Phonograph Company went bankrupt in 1894 and Edison was prohibited from selling phonographs until 1896. His development of the business didn't take off until he introduced a model he could sell at an affordable price (the Standard in 1898).
Martin
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shellophone
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Post by shellophone on Jun 2, 2009 3:29:30 GMT -5
Edison's big distraction in 1879 was the work he did on the Electric Lamp and the infrastructure related to its exploitation. Edison doing this work under contract to J.P. Morgan who asked Edison to develop a system of power generation/distribution/illumination that could be metered and sold. Morgan underwrote Edison's work on the project. The incandescent lamp, etc. was not invented out of the kindness of one's heart for the benefit of all mankind, etc. as Edison's propaganda relentlessly allowed! John M |
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