Phonograph Inventor Thomas Alva Edison has a lot to answer foras the most casual record-shop browser can testify. Sir Arthur Sullivan once declared: "I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever." Edison's invention has so profoundly altered the performance and consumption of music that it was possible for the most popular singer of the dayElvis Presleyto build a recording-studio career while scarcely ever opening his mouth in public. To commemorate Edison's recent election to the Hall of Fame, the Edison Foundation has...
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