European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I was always afraid of things that worked the first by a qu1gg United press International i he wonders of a wizard Are everywhere when Bug blame it All on Edison you walk the Well preserved Laboratory Complex of Thomas Alva Edison at West Orang of Thomas Alva Edison at West now a National historic and the favorite wonder of the wizard of Menlo Park is a spooky curiosity of Iron and it squats there in the fight of ancient Edison invented elec tric bulbs with filaments of japanese the phonograph was Edison favorite this is my this very first As the Patent ut7 a Are or talking machine called came to life la and if your eardrums reaming Mee Raies of today dont blame old he always thought us favorite invention was going to be a Busi Ness machine the original has a spiral grooved brass Cylinder on a Foo Long Shaft with worm gear and a wooden handled Crank on the right and two each with in tubes on opposite sides of the Colin v the first workable and accurate design in Edi sons was made on he handed it to his chief John and told him to make Kruesi asked what it was when Edison told Kruesi thought it was the absurd thing was finished on those present bet the old Man cigars that it  Edison wrapped a Sheet of tin foil around the Cylinder and began even at age getting a bit he shouted into one diaphragm the verse about the Well known Mary and her attendant Little Lamb with the Snowwhite he removed the first adjusted the and the Gadget began Matthew Josephson in his biography Edison tells it like this out of the machine came Forth what everyone recognized As the High pitched voice of Thomas Edison or almost re reciting the Little Mother Goose Kruesi turned Pale and made some pious exclamation in All the onlookers were dumb Edison declared later i was never so taken Aback in All my everybody was i was always afraid of things that worked the first the new Jersey historical commission and the National Park service held Centennial celebrations they Are stuck with the Date because it has Long been official for the invention and was used in 1927 for the 50th there is a paper with an unworkable sketch by Edison and his handwriting make this 12 historic site authorities say it is now known the sketch was reproduced after that Date possibly in 1927 with Edison adding the writing and the Date the Menlo Park where Edison invented the phonograph two years the electric was moved to by Henry Ford in the late the four Story Edison and the nearby laboratories at West Orange form the Edison National historic born in had Only about three months formal education but was brilliantly in his teens be was a Morse code a happenstance that led to the his first Laboratory was in he moved in 1876 to the Boondocks of Menlo Park for the Solitude and the place was neither a Park nor a it was a Flag station on the six houses and a he moved his laboratories to West Orange in 1886 and stayed there until his death to in More than so years of he took out including the motion picture there an people Orange who knew Edison including two children by his second Madeline Edison and a Bedore Theodore still putters about us own but nobody seems to know whats going on la papa worked 20 hours a says on one occasion be slept for 36 on sundays the second floor living was strewn with papa could read a Page in nothing and he read father smoked 10 or 12 cigars a Day and also chewed he chewed More Ian he another acquaintance the phonograph was his favorite he did things that would Benefit and he enjoyed their in his idea was that the phonograph was for Busi Ness and education i think it surprised him that it turned into such an entertainment Theodore didst want to discuss the anniversary Ever time my name is in the i get Calls and it just ties of my an inventor this morning tied me of for half an hour about us perpetual motion i have too Many projects going on now to get involved with anything Matthew the has a succinct observation about Edison he was directly in touch with All the details of work done in his Busy this is borne out by Thelma who worked in his electrical Laboratory from 1929 until his 1931 you never worked for you worked with you were never i Awe of he was a Sweet old pre he made the rounds and kept his Eye on every he would always come in and see what we were doing and have some Nice suggestions and Tell us we were Rushing he believed in taking your time and being sure that everything was right keep keep keep experimenting be sure its that was his big Hue and Edison was always interested in the Dot dash telegraphed Morse code matter of fact when he was courting his second wife he taught her the code and later tapped out his marriage proposal on the Back of her hand and from age 17 he had been trying to invent ways of mechanically speeding it up for Cable at age still on the be had continuous Rolls of paper tape with stylus indentations of the dots racing along with a steel Spring to keep it and when the indentations struck the Spring they sometimes gave off a rhythmical resembling human talk Beard human talk something went to Angl in his he forgot made a 90degree and the rest is Edison lab guide with 1877 August 1977 with the 1877 Edison became an instant Leslie weekly called the Gadget and its maker a 19th Century Edison played with the machine and business was it could be made to talk English or catch bark like a Roland in his the fabulous 1s77 says the Bubble burst after about half a the business ground to an abrupt halt Edison was onto the electric Bell started the american gramophone and Edison battled a financier took Over both companies and failed when he tried to make dictating Edison took Over but still insisted on business then some subsidiary Genius began to offer it As a Coin inthe Slot immediate the Early phonograph was notable for recordings by operatic singers such As Caruso and Schnmann but by the record business was practically extinct you did not buy luxuries when Banks were Toscanini brought on a revival in the year the music goes round and round sold the came Elvis Presley and the Rock revolution cat beaus in 1963 with a new Rock concept came with the counterculture High Quality magnetic tape put the stereo into the billboard in 1975 said there were 73 million phonographs in the United states alone Gelatt heaven knows How Many in the entire Edison machine prospered it took 90 years for record sales to reach an annual total of a billion Dol it took Only seven More years to reach the second Gelatt concludes the crude machine that talked talk had developed into an into Ament of infinite a partisan historian could perhaps be forgiven for claiming it As the chief Marvel and Solace of the he ignores the of the encyclopedia Britannica notes that Edison Industrial research Menlo Park first in the May be seen As his greatest he was the first to use an organized team of this concept put a Man on the the voyager spacecraft being launched this Edison Centennial year is carrying a Copper phonograph record to provide other if the sounds of this the old Man would be Happy to know they include the sounds of a a baby the Morse code particularly the Morse that where it All the stars and stripes Page 13