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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381903)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Feb 25
Today’s photo from the Collie Museum is of a phonograph with two horns. The original phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison in 1877 and dual horn type began appearing in the late 1890s to early 1900s.
One of the reasons for...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381903)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Aug 22
We are house-sitting now at Grass Valley, in Western Australia, several hours from our own home in a retirement village. The house is very old but has been well maintained and has all mod cons.
The one drawback is that the...
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (222285)
• United States
21 Nov 19
Pumpkin Pie Day
National Stuffing Day
1676 - Danish astronomer Ole Romer presents the first quantitative measurement of the speed of light.
1877 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that records...
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Alice Henry
@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
19 Nov 16
The 19th President of the United States was Rutherford B. Hayes. I found several interesting things about him in my research. I’ve been hearing bits and pieces of history about former U.S. Presidents lately, because of the...
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Alice Henry
@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
7 May 16
His very first patent was for an Electronic Vote Recorder that he invented when he was just 22 years old, and was working as a telegrapher. This voting device kept track of votes and tabulated the final outcome of the...
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