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SPECIAL: Thomas Edison (Part 1)
My First Million
Recording the Human Voice
Edison invented a machine that could record human speech and deliver it on paper. When he told his lawyer about the invention, Benjamin butler said: "It is so remarkable that i do not understand it at all" Edison didn't immediately recognize how this would be commercialized. He was trying to print telegrams rather than send them out in Morse code as we've done for years.
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