Edison demonstrates recorded and reproduced sound
The tinfoil phonograph records and plays back sound for the first time, cutting a vertical groove into foil wrapped around a cylinder. It is a laboratory demonstration rather than a music industry, and it will be a decade before a format capable of mass duplication exists — but from this point a performance can, in principle, outlive the performance.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Sound recording · technology · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Historical Background — Timeline, National Recording Preservation Plan
Edison introduced the phonograph in 1877, ten years before Berliner's gramophone patent, establishing recorded and reproduced sound. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to this Library of Congress timeline; the timeline page was not opened and no entry in it is quoted.
Library of Congress · Partly verified
loc.gov, National Recording Preservation Plan, historical background timeline
Recorded on Sound recording
- Edison demonstrates recorded and reproduced sound
- Berliner patents the gramophone
- The first jazz record is made
- KDKA broadcasts
- Victor and Columbia adopt electrical recording
- The Kumasi Trio record in London
Related
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- The Kumasi Trio record in London · 1928
- Victor and Columbia adopt electrical recording · 1925
- KDKA broadcasts · 1920-11-02
- The first jazz record is made · 1917-02-26
- Berliner patents the gramophone · 1887-11-08