Oct 11, 2001 - Sale 1908

Sale 1908 - Lot 284

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
THE PHONOGRAPHEDISON, THOMAS ALVA. A.D. 1878, 24th April. Nº 1644 . . . Recording and Reproducing Sounds. 4 folding plates (crudely rehinged with cloth tape). 12 pages. 4to, disbound. <\t>(London, 1878)
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First printing of the British patent for Edison's first phonograph, using tinfoil wrapped around a cylinder as the recording medium.<