Stunning phonograph vintage mirror, Thomas Edison

Stunning phonograph Thomas Edison vintage mirror. Art nouveau advertising collectible piece. Lovely vibrant vintage advertising mirror showing a glamorous lady in elegant attire posing on the background in the detail picture on the phonograph player and the details. “Everyone loves the Edison” And the further vivid wording and the famous branding. Come in a wonderful vintage condition with minor marks of patina, it’s made with a sturdy mahogany frame . Height: 70cm Length: 69cm Width: 3cm In 1885, Thomas Edison wrote, "I have not heard a bird sing since I was twelve." No one is really sure just how Edison lost most of his hearing. Yet this man invented the first machine that could capture sound and play it back. In fact, the phonograph was his favorite invention. The first phonograph was invented in 1877 at the Menlo Park lab. A piece of tin-foil was wrapped around the cylinder in the middle. You shouted a short message into the piece on one side of the cylinder while you turned the handle. Inside this piece was a needle. Your voice would make the needle shake, or vibrate. The sound vibrations would go through the needle and make a line, or groove, into the tin-foil. A ne...more

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