The Edison "Standard Speaker": "On This Day in Phonographic History..."

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"On This Day in Phonographic History..."

 

June 9, 1891:  Thomas A. Edison was granted a U.S. patent (No.453,741)for what would become known as the Standard Speaker.  This contained both recording and reproducing styli, and brought the brief era of the “spectacle device” to a close on entertainment Phonographs.  The Standard Speaker would continue as standard equipment on Edison Phonographs until 1898.

 

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