THE TALKING MACHINE
FRANCE’S CLAIM TO INVENTION. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, May 2. (Received May 2, at 8 p.m.) Th° fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the talking machine is being celebrated in France, where, it is officially claimed, Charles Cros, a Parisian, anticipated Edison in patenting a phonograph. Cros deposited a sealed description of the mechanism six mouths befors Unison, but he was of a Bohemian disposition, and he died in poverty ten years later.— A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20088, 3 May 1927, Page 9
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80THE TALKING MACHINE Otago Daily Times, Issue 20088, 3 May 1927, Page 9
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