| | On the 6th December 1877 Thomas Edison recorded Mary Had a Little Lamb, the first recording of a voice. While working to improve the efficiency of a telegraph transmitter, he noted that the tape of the machine gave off a noise resembling spoken words when played at a high speed. This caused him to wonder if he could record a telephone message. He began experimenting by attaching a needle to the telephone receiver. He reasoned that the needle could prick paper tape to record a message. His experiments led him to try a stylus on a tinfoil cylinder, which, to his great surprise, played back the short message he recorded, Mary had a little lamb.
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| Mary had a little lamb
It's fleece was white as snow
Everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.
His device became known as a phonograph and it played cylinders rather than discs.
Edison is also famous for his improvements on electric light and his invention of the movie camera. In fact during his lifetime he came up with 1,093 patents for his various inventions but he is best remembered for these three; the phonograph, the electric light bulb and the movie camera.
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