Happy 137th Birthday, Phonograph Player!

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OMG, guys! I'm soooo embarrassed I missed the birthday of one of my closest friends: the Phonograph! It was February 19th, 1878, when inventor Thomas Edison patented his machine, which could record AND play sound. His inspiration for the phonograph was tied to his attempts to play back messages transmitted via telegraph. For his early experiments he used paper disks to capture sound via an electromagnet "embossing point" marking the