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1857 Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville invents the phonautograph
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1877 Thomas Edison creates the phonograph which can record and playback sound it also used a aluminum cylinder to capture and play the sound
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November 29, 1877, The first public phonograph demonstration happens with the song Mary Had a Little Lamb playing
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The Volta Gramophone company patents an improved phonograph with wax based cylinders to play sound
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1887 Emile Berliner patents the gramophone which used a circular disk to play sound instead of a wax cylinder
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1896 The phonograph becomes commercially available which allows people to listen to music at home
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1901 Thomas Edison creates a disk phonograph which allows vinyl disks to be played instead of wax cylinders
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1929 Thomas Edison wins a special Academy Award in recognition of his invention of the phonograph