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Edison's Phonograph Doll is a children's toy doll developed by the Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Company (founded by William W. Jacques and Lowell Briggs in 1887) and introduced in 1890. The original doll was invented by Thomas Edison in 1877. The 22-inch doll featured a miniature removable phonograph that played a single nursery rhyme ...
Collecter, Ward Harris, holds a talking doll with a metal torso that was invented by Thomas Edison, in San Francisco, Calif., Feb. 9, 1949. Harris holds in his other hand the inside mechanicals of ...
Edison, an Ohio native who moved to West Orange, NJ, in 1886 and whose legendary lab and residence are preserved at the historical park — created the doll in 1890 after he invented the phonograph.
In 1888, Edison developed a china doll equipped with a cylindrical phonograph with pre-recorded messages. It was a commercial flop — consumers thought the dolls were creepy. Talking dolls did ...
Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).
Edison's "Phonomotor" or "Vocal Engine" The phonomotor or "vocal engine" was a device invented by Thomas Edison in 1878 to measure the mechanical force of sound. It converted sound energy or sound power into rotary motion which could drive a machine such as a small saw or drill.
Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated (originally the National Phonograph Company) was the main holding company for the various manufacturing companies established by the inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison. It was a successor to Edison Manufacturing Company and operated between 1911 and 1957, when it merged with McGraw Electric to form McGraw-Edison.
Edison's films were made by the Kinetograph Department of the Edison Manufacturing Company. [4] Edison's first moviemaking studio—and also the world's first—was the "Black Maria" in West Orange, New Jersey, where production of Kinetoscope films began in early 1893.