Money Makers: Great Business Men ••• by Paul Odame Gloria Jubi

Author:Paul Odame, Gloria Jubi [Paul Odame, Gloria Jubi]
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The phonograph patent, in contrast, was unprecedented as describing the first device to record and reproduce sounds. In just over a decade, Edison's Menlo Park laboratory had expanded to occupy two city

blocks. Edison said he wanted the lab to have "a stock of almost every conceivable material". A newspaper article printed in 1887 reveals the seriousness of his claim, stating the lab contained "eight thousand

kinds of chemicals, every kind of screw made, every size of needle, every kind of cord or wire, hair of humans, horses, hogs,

cows, rabbits, goats, minx, camels ... silk in

every texture, cocoons, various kinds of hoofs, shark's teeth, deer horns, tortoise shell ... cork, resin, varnish and oil, ostrich feathers, a peacock's tail, jet, amber, rubber, all ores ..." and the list goes on.

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