Aug. 12, 1877, is the date popularly given for Thomas Alva Edison’s completion of the model for the first phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders.
From Edison to Taylor Swift, the brain is a living phonograph—recording and replaying the grooves of memory, culture, and ...
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