What can you tell me about Edison and the phonograph
Edison began studying music long before his invention of the phonograph. The article explains the phonograph records and reproduces sounds via a very thin vibrating diaphragm and notes the device’s potential for perfect sound reproduction across operatic and other recordings. It also touches on related questions about Haymarket and various trivia, but centers on Edison’s early musical knowledge and the phonograph’s principle.
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Thomas A. Edison
Mr. Edison
Ifme
Old newspapers found in historic Stratford house
In Stratford on May 27 a two family home on Judson place revealed two old newspapers tucked in a garret beam. The boxes yielded the Columbian Register of December 25, 1827 with news of a Turkey versus allied fleets and a Liberia report, plus a Providence Journal debt suit from 1826 and a New York Human Rights issue from September 1836. The finds hint at the town’s past public uses and abolitionist activity.
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Stratford
Judson Place
Charles A. Plumb
Plumb
Columbian Register
New Haven
Joseph Barber
United States
Turkey
England
France
Russia
Greece
Liberia
Providence Journal
Providence
Asher Robbins
Robbins
New York
District of Columbia
Lincoln
Banquet Guests and Summer Plans Highlight Local Notes
Local notes reveal Phi Gamma sorority hosting a banquet at the Presbyterian church. Dorothy Capps hosts weekend guests at Laurel Beach. Ruth Coulter, dating 1908, to be married soon. Block Island summer cruise planned by William Lee John Corcoran Vincent Weldon. Quake Gregory to study vocal training in the big city. Barbara Dubois and Dick Mansfield left school. Awarded Miss O’Neill recovering from scarlet fever. Aunt Mary in London visits golfing kin and uncovers 24 golf balls.
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Phi Gamma
Presbyterian Church
Dorothy Capps
Laurel Beach
Natalis
Hopkins
Ruth Coulter
Hinkey Dee
William Lee
John Corcoran
Vincent
Russell Weldon
Block Island
Barbara Dubois
Dick” Mansfield
Read & Tullock Co
Gregory
Baward O'Neill
Crossman
Tablet honored naval sprit tablet reaches city
Local Intelligence notes a tablet awarded to N W Bishop camp from sunken Maine material is en route to Bridgeport first in the nation to receive such a tablet. Surgeon Dr Frank A Healey recovering well after appendicitis operation at St Vincent's Hospital.
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N. W. Bishop Camp
Maine
Bridgeport
Bishop Camp
Frank A. Healey
St Vincent's Hospital
P. J. MclAughlin
Colonel Tim Outwits City Hall Prankster O'Brien
Col T J Murphy fooled City Assessor O'Brien with a fake Atlantic cable from Charles J Byrne now in Ireland. The spoof, created in Bridgeport, was presented as a genuine news item and reportedly cost tolls, with Byrne unknowingly the target of the joke.
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Col
T. J. Murphy
Charles J. Byrne
Atlantic
Bridgeport
Ireland
O’brien
Farmer
C. J. Byrne
TIZ Cured Her Feet Quick After Second Treatment
Mrs. Crockett of Jeffersonville reports dramatic relief from sore feet after a second TIZ treatment, able to walk stairs one foot at a time for the first time in five years. The ad touts TIZ as a unique foot remedy, promising a free trial package and money back if unsatisfied.
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Tiz
Walter Luther Dodge & Co
Chicago
Trinity Church to Celebrate Its Fiftieth Anniversary
Trinity church in Bridgeport marks 50 years since its founding after Bishop John Williams consented on June 1 1863. The parish began with notable citizens including J Morford Ira Gregory and others. services started over a rail station room before the Fairfield avenue Broad street church opened in 1864.
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Trinity Church
John Williams
Connecticut
Annale
Bridgeport
Saint John’s Parish
Jarratt Morford
Ira Gregory
Samuel Willmot
EH Thompson
David W. Thompson
Robert T. Clarke
E. L. Simpson
E. B. Goodsell
Philo C. Calhoun
Henry Sanford
William W. Holcombe
John L. Fitch
John T. Shelton
Sylvester Clark
Fairfield Avenue
Broad Street
Louis Norman Booth
William B. Stoskopf
Church of the Ascension of
Chicago
Charles L. Gomph
Robert E. de Forest
George C. Edwards
Wallace A. Smith
Robert D. Goddard
William B. Stockopf
New Haven’s New Electrical Repair Shops at Van Ness
New Haven plans a $650000 electrical repair complex at Van Ness Bronx Borough to service NY, New Haven and Hartford railroad equipment. The two acre facility includes inspection sheds, repair shop, boiler and power house and will operate with Cos Cob power. It houses ninety nine electric locomotives, thirty six freight engines and supports electrification to New Haven and Stamford.
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New Haven Road
New Haven
New York, New Haven
Ven Nese
Harlem River
Harlem
Cos Cob
Conn
New York
Stamford
New Westchester
Boston
St van Ness
Harlem Terminal
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Morningside Heights
North End
Noble Avenue
Putnam Street
Beardsley Park
Bronx
Hawley Avenues
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Spargo & Winter
Warner
Crawford Laundry Co
Fairfield Ave
Courtland St
Haymarket
Pope Leo XIII
Caruso
Country
Edmond Rostand
Marseilles
Rosamonde Gerard
Rostand
Japan
Formosa
Sakhalin
Portsmouth
Korea
China
Kwangtung
Port Arthur
Philippines
Hawaii
Shakespeare
America
Europe
Panama Canal
Fairchild
Mary
London
Christian Register
Sree
Alec
Taylor
St Agnes
Hartford
J. J. Nilan
Philip L Holzer
David F. Read
de Ver Hi Warner
William H. Johnson
Capitol Avenue
Irene
8. T. Davis,Jr
Courtlanol
Philadelphia
Tim
O'Brien
Louisville Courier-Journal
W. B. Stoskoff
Jane
the Tatler
Girl
Font
Louisville Courier-Journl
Louisville CourierJournal
Darmer
Arnold Lorand
Press of the
F. A. Davis Co
Carlsbad
Americana
John FF. Fay
Superior Fabrics
Per
Publicity Club OF
Rem
Pridaeport
Stratford Avenue
Fiat
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