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Magic Edison
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The first recorded words were thought to have been spoken by Thomas Edison when he invented the phonograph in 1877. The earliest phonograph recorded on tinfoil around a grooved cylinder, but had very poor sound quality, and the recordings degraded very quickly so that they could only be played a few times before they became unusable. Still, the results were so unexpected that the inventions seemed to work, to most people, like magic. Edison even became known as the Wizard of Menlo Park because the machine's ability to capture and reproduce sound was so unusual. Here are the first words that Edison recorded with his phonograph. He is reciting the words to Mary Had a Little Lamb.
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