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Title: Development of the Phonograph at Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory
Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, United States National Museum Bulletin 218, Paper 5, (pages 69-79)

Author: Leslie J. Newville

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Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology,
United States National Museum Bulletin 218,
Paper 5, (pages 69-79)

DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHONOGRAPH AT
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL'S VOLTA LABORATORY

LESLIE J. NEWVILLE

DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHONOGRAPH
AT ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL'S
VOLTA LABORATORY

by

LESLIE J. NEWVILLE

_The fame of Thomas A. Edison rests most securely on his genius for
making practical application of the ideas of others. However, it
was Alexander Graham Bell, long a Smithsonian Regent and friend of
its third Secretary S. P. Langley, who, with his Volta Laboratory
associates made practical the phonograph, which has been called
Edison's most original invention._

THE AUTHOR: _Leslie J. Newville wrote this paper while he was
attached to the office