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The phonograph record player, or gramophone is a device introduced in 1877 that has had continued common use for reproducing sound recordings, although when first developed, the phonograph was used to both record and reproduce sounds...

Timeline of Events

1877

11.21.1877

Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.

11.29.1877

Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

1878

2.19.1878

Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.

1888

8.14.1888

A recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's The Lost Chord, one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London.