Opening of Box Containing Thomas Edison's Graphophone
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Form/Genre: Black-and-white negatives
Date: 1937
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-006, Box 309, Image No. MAH-44312C
Opening of box containing Thomas Edison's graphophone, the first talking machine to record the human voice on wax, deposited (sealed) at the Smithsonian Institution by Volta Laboratory in 1880-1881, with Elsie May Bell Grosvenor, daughter of Alexander Graham Bell, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, president of National Geographic Society, Alexander Graham Bell Grosvenor, great-grandson of Bell, Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot, T.H. Beard, vice president of the Dictaphone Co., and Harry Woodward Dorsey, administrative assistant to Secretary Abbot.
Copy made November 28, 1956.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-006, Box 309, Image No. MAH-44312C
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Phonograph
Black-and-white negatives
SIA Acc. 11-006 [MAH-44312C]
8 x 10;