Since today is the anniversary of Edison announcing the invention of the phonograph I thought it would be a good day to reveal some of the uses he imagined for his invention. Edison was working on improvements to the telegraph and telephone when he figured out a way to record sound. The first words he recorded were "Mary had a little lamb",he was amazed when the machine played his words back. His suggested uses for the phonograph were: letter writing/dictation,books for the blind,a family recording,music boxes,toys,clocks that spoke the time and a connection with the telephone so communications could be recorded. It is surprising how many of his projections became reality.
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