Meet Edison's Tinfoil Phonograph from 1877

National Museum of American History · 127K views · 2018 · 2:17

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Demonstrates Edison's 1877 tinfoil phonograph, the first device to record and play back sound.

Linked by 5 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including history.com, openculture.com, imao.us, doornbusch.net, mrnedved.com.