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Antique Thomas Edison Ediphone

  Lot # 027
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Good For age please read description
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34” x 17” x 17” with Stand
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Lot # 027
System ID # 1923133
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Antique Ediphone Serial No. d 271552 by Thomas A. Edison Inc. Orange N.J. "Trademark Thomas Edison" in Gold. Also stamped "Grand Prize Sesquicentennial" This comes with a Thomas Edison Voicewriter Master Wax Cylinder and an empty Paramount Cylinder Tube. This has not been tested due to electric cord being very old.

The Edison Speaking Phonograph Company was established on January 24, 1878, to exploit the new machine by exhibiting it. Edison received $10,000 for the manufacturing and sales rights and 20% of the profits. As a novelty, the machine was an instant success, but was difficult to operate except by experts, and the tin foil would last for only a few playings. Thomas Edison's Ediphone was like a drum memory for sound. It had a tube to speak in and the voice vibrations would be recorded on a wax cylinder. A secretary would then type up the recording and shave the used layer of the cylinder so it could be reused.