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21st November 1877: Thomas Edison announces the phonograph

21st November 2019
Tagged as: Culture, Edison, Invention, Music, Recording, Science, Sound, Technology, USA

On the 21^st November 1877, American inventor Thomas Edison announced his phonograph, the world’s first practical machine that could record and play sound using a cylinder.

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10th March 1876: Bell transmits the first speech using the telephone

10th March 2019
Tagged as: Communication, Invention, Science, Scotland, Sound, Technology, Telephone, USA

On the 10^th March 1876, Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call when he contacted his assistant, Thomas Watson.

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21st November 1877: Thomas Edison announces the phonograph

10th March 1876: Bell transmits the first speech using the telephone

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29th July 1588: Decisive Battle of Gravelines during the Spanish Armada

6th September 1522: Victoria becomes the first ship to circumnavigate the world

10th September 1991: Nirvana release ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

20th January 1986: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day first observed as a federal holiday

19th January 1920: Foundation of the American Civil Liberties Union

18th January 1919: The Paris Peace Conference begins

17th January 1991: Gulf War combat begins with Operation Desert Storm

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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