The New Edison: Thomas A. Edison's Final Achievement phonograph advertisement – Vintage Print
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Step back in time with The New Edison: Thomas A. Edison's Final Achievement phonograph advertisement, a historic image rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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The New Edison: Thomas A. Edison's Final Achievement phonograph advertisement
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The New Edison was the name Thomas A. Edison gave his later line of phonographs, and this advertisement presents it as his final achievement, a claim pitched directly to the buying public. Edison had been known for the incandescent lamp and the early phonograph of the 1870s, and by the 1910s his company was marketing sound reproduction as a home entertainment product, with cabinet machines and cylinder records sold alongside them. Ads of this kind lean on the inventor's name as a mark of trust, so the wording here tells you as much about how consumers were courted in the period as it does about the machine itself.
| Original scan | 640 × 845 px |
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| Reference | phono1 |
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