“Mr. Thomas A. Edison recently came into this office,” a December 1877 Scientific American article describes, “placed a little machine on our desk, turned a crank, and the machine inquired as to our health, asked how we liked the phonograph, informed us that it was very well, and bid us...
“Mr. Thomas A. Edison recently came into this office,” a December 1877 Scientific American article describes, “placed a little machine on our desk, turned a crank, and the machine inquired as to our health, asked how we liked the phonograph, informed us that it was very well, and bid us...