Edison

"Twinkle, twinkle little star" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, brown wax ; Rolfs collection.

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Phonautograph: Invented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in Paris, France in 1857. This object is a full-scale replica based on historic drawings, built in 2016 by Anton Stoelwinder for the David Giovanno More

Replica of Scott's 1859 cylinder phonautograph: Invented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, the original built by him and Rudolph Koenig in Paris, France in 1859. This object is a replica based on historic More

Replica of Scott's 1859 cylinder phonautograph: Invented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, the original built by him and Rudolph Koenig in Paris, France in 1859. This object is a replica based on historic More

Replica of Scott's 1859 cylinder phonautograph: Invented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, the original built by him and Rudolph Koenig in Paris, France in 1859. This object is a replica based on historic More

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A black and white photo of a group of men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This is the printed patent drawing for a phonograph invented by Thomas A. Edison. Patents Issued to Thomas A. Edison

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A man in a suit sitting at a table with a typewriter. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Replica of Edison's 1877 Cylinder Tinfoil Phonograph: Invented by Thomas Edison and built by John Kruesi in Menlo Park, New Jersey in December 1877. This machine is a replica, built by William Miller in 2011. More

Edison's "Speaking Telephone" notes and drawings, July 17, 1877.

Edison's "Speaking Telegraph" notes and drawings, July 18, 1877.

Replica of Edison's 1877 Cylinder Tinfoil Phonograph: Invented by Thomas Edison and built by John Kruesi in Menlo Park, New Jersey in December 1877. This machine is a replica, built by William Miller in 2011. More

Replica of Edison's 1877 Cylinder Tinfoil Phonograph: Invented by Thomas Edison and built by John Kruesi in Menlo Park, New Jersey in December 1877. This machine is a replica, built by William Miller in 2011. More

Edison's Embossing Translating Telegraph, designed in 1876 and built early in 1877 at Menlo Park, New Jersey. This original artifact is preserved and on display at Thomas Edison National Historical Park.

Replica of Edison's 1877 Cylinder Tinfoil Phonograph: Invented by Thomas Edison and built by John Kruesi in Menlo Park, New Jersey in December 1877. This machine is a replica, built by William Miller in 2011. More

Edison's Embossing Translating Telegraph, designed in 1876 and built early in 1877 at Menlo Park, New Jersey. This original artifact is preserved and on display at Thomas Edison National Historical Park.

Edison's 1877 Cylinder Tinfoil Phonograph: Invented by Thomas Edison and built by John Kruesi in Menlo Park, New Jersey in December 1877. This historic artifact is preserved and on display at Thomas Edison Na More

Replica of Edison's 1877 Cylinder Tinfoil Phonograph: Invented by Thomas Edison and built by John Kruesi in Menlo Park, New Jersey in December 1877. This machine is a replica, built by William Miller in 2011. More

Edison's Embossing Translating Telegraph, designed in 1876 and built early in 1877 at Menlo Park, New Jersey. This original artifact is preserved and on display at Thomas Edison National Historical Park.

Replica of Edison's 1877 Cylinder Tinfoil Phonograph: Invented by Thomas Edison and built by John Kruesi in Menlo Park, New Jersey in December 1877. This machine is a replica, built by William Miller in 2011. More

Edison's Embossing Translating Telegraph, designed in 1876 and built early in 1877 at Menlo Park, New Jersey. This original artifact is preserved and on display at Thomas Edison National Historical Park.

Edison's "Phonograph" notes and drawings, December 3, 1877.

Replica of Edison's 1877 Cylinder Tinfoil Phonograph: Invented by Thomas Edison and built by John Kruesi in Menlo Park, New Jersey in December 1877. This machine is a replica, built by William Miller in 2011. More

Edison's 1878 Plate (Disc) Phonograph: Invented by Thomas Edison in Menlo Park, New Jersey in early 1878. This object is a replica based on historic drawings, built for Ray Phillips in 2000, it is now in the More

Replica of Edison's 1878 Plate (Disc) Phonograph: Invented by Thomas Edison in Menlo Park, New Jersey in early 1878. Built for Ray Phillips in 2000, it is now in the David Giovannoni collection. An original More

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Replica of Edison's 1878 Plate (Disc) Phonograph: Invented by Thomas Edison in Menlo Park, New Jersey in early 1878. Built for Ray Phillips in 2000, it is now in the David Giovannoni collection. An original More

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Edison's complex at Menlo Park, showing house, laboratory, office and machine shop.

Six views showing Menlo Park and exterior of Edison's laboratory, and electric light apparatus. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1880 Jan. 10., p. 353.

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, (1880 Jan. 3). Reference copy may be in LOT 4397 I. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Copyright 1880 by Emil P. Spahn, Newark, New Jersey. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Utility Patent Drawings Public domain photograph of electric industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Utility Patent Drawings Public domain photograph of electric industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Utility Patent Drawings Public domain photograph of a patent diagram drawings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This image has been taken from scan 000055 from "The Constitutional Club. R. W. Edis, F.S.A., Architect. [Reprinted from “The British Architect.”]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated More

Main entrance into the Laboratory Complex. Thomas Edison opened his Laboratory Complex in 1887. The complex included a library, machine shops, chemistry, physics and metallurgical laboratories and experiment More

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During the summer of 1889, Thomas Edison exhibited his phonograph technology at the Exposition Universelle De Paris. A talking doll is displayed on the center table.

In the summer of 1889, Thomas Edison exhibited his lastest phonograph technology at the Exposition Universelle De Paris. A prototype Edison Talking Doll is displayed on the center table. Thomas Edison National More

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Drawing of Edison Talking Doll 'packing room' in the Edison Phonograph Works. Scientific American, April 26, 1890, image from cover page.

Manufacture of Edison Talking Dolls took place at the Edison Phonograph Works, near the Edison Laboratory, in West Orange, New Jersey. Thomas Edison National Historical Park historic photograph, image number 29-415-001.

Drawing of Edison Talking Doll with back open ; Scientific American, April 26, 1890, image from cover page.

Drawing of Edison Talking Doll phonograph mechanism ; Scientific American, April 26, 1890, image from cover page.

Drawing of Edison Talking Doll, complete with clothing ; Scientific American, April 26, 1890, image from cover page.

"The Manufacture of Edison's Talking Doll", Scientific American magazine, April 26, 1890.

Drawing of young woman making a doll recording ; Scientific American, April 26, 1890, image from cover page.

"Edison's Phonographic Doll" (news article), Scientific American magazine, April 26, 1890, page 263.

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Copyright by W. K. Dickson, 1892.

3/4 seated, with one of his inventions, facing left [Ediphone?]. 48007Xp1s U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by W.K. Dickson, Orange, N.J. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Capt More

Portrait shows Edison seated in center. with Fred Ott at left and Col. George Gouraud at right. Standing (left to right) are W.K.L. Dickson, Charles Batchelor, A. Theodore Wangemann, John Ott, and Charles Brown More

Portrait shows Edison seated in center of front row. On his right: Ch. Batchelor, W.S. Mallory, J.F. Randolph, and J.W. Harris. On his left (right to left): J. Ott; Thos. Maguire; J.W. Gladstone; and Ch. Brown. More

Naney Elliot(t) Edison, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. 41785Y U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph of framed picture. Copyright by W.K.L. Dickson, Orange, N.J.

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Print shows a man, Edison engineer Fred Ott, sneezing. The accompanying Harper's Weekly article describes the image as "the entire record of a sneeze from the first taking of a pinch of snuff to the recover" u More

"Considered to be the first motion picture given legal status by copyright acceptance. The forty-five frames it contains were sent in for copyright as a still picture. The action consists of a man, Fred Ott, sn More

Photograph of an Edison Kinetoscope strip showing nine photos (film frames) of Sandow in various strong man poses. Includes a head-and-shoulders portrait of Thomas A. Edison above the strip. 10777 U.S. Copyrigh More

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Corliss engine used to power giant rolls at the Concentrating Works, 1895.

Copyrighted by Kreidler & Crider. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Copyright by T.A. Edison. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This photo shows a close-up view of the recorded sound groove surface. (Note: The "1565" marking is not historic. It is the NPS museum catalog number.) "Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinde More

"Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Park Service collection (EDIS 1565).

This view shows the inside rim of the cylinder. "Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Park Service collection (EDIS 1565).

"Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Park Service collection (EDIS 1565).

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"Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Park Service collection (EDIS 1565).

A close-up view of the feedscrew on Edison Talking Doll prototype mechanism (EDIS 1564). "Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Park Service collection (EDIS 1565).

A marking found inside the cylinder reads "T 130" (inside ring, top center.) (Note: The "1565" marking is not historic. It is the NPS museum catalog number.) "Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cy More

Interiör av Edisons elektriska belysningsstation i New York år 1882. Ur Scientific American.

A marking found inside the cylinder reads "hickory 120" (inside ring, top center). "Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Park Service collection (EDIS 1565).

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"Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Park Service collection (EDIS 1565).

"Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Park Service collection (EDIS 1565).

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"Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Park Service collection (EDIS 1565).

A group of women standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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"Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Park Service collection (EDIS 1565).

Portrait of Thomas Edison taken around 1878

"Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Park Service collection (EDIS 1565).

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"Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Park Service collection (EDIS 1565).

"Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Park Service collection (EDIS 1565).

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"Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Park Service collection (EDIS 1565).

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A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of men standing next to a bed. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Park Service collection (EDIS 1565).

"Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Park Service collection (EDIS 1565).

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This view shows the outside rim of the cylinder. (Note: The "1565" marking is not historic. It is the NPS museum catalog number.) "Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Pa More

"Hickory, dickory, dock" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, metal ; National Park Service collection (EDIS 1565).