Edison's Phonograph Debut

Edison post fame is most appealing when he returned to acting spontaneously without weighing what action would serve his public image. The debut came off not just smoothly but brilliantly so this story takes place before the anecdote about him wanting to hear the voice of Napoleon it's when he actually demonstrates what the phonograph is capable of doing for the first time in public on December 7th 1877 Edison walked into the New York offices of Scientific American a place they small machine on the editor's desk and with about a dozen people gather around turn the crank.