Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? by Margaret Frith

Author:Margaret Frith [Frith, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101639924
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2005-12-28T16:00:00+00:00

At first Tom thought companies would use his phonograph in business. He saw it as a kind of dictating machine for writing letters. Businesses did use it. It was called the Ediphone.

But during his lifetime Tom saw his phonograph’s popularity grow in ways he hadn’t expected.

There was a big demand for music—in concert halls and in penny arcades. For five cents, several people could listen to a song at the same time. Soon people wanted their own phonographs at home.

Years later Tom wrote an article about all the ways the phonograph might be used one day. He saw far into the future. He even predicted audiotapes. He called them “talking books.”

Tom was always working on more than one idea at a time. Perhaps he didn’t pay as close attention to his phonograph as he should have. His company, the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company in New York City, made and sold phonographs using his cylinders. But other companies went on to develop a more popular machine. It used flat disks called records.

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