Riddle me this??? Which came FIRST?
 

The Record, or the Record player?

After all, if it were the Record, with nothing to play it on, then why?

If you say the player... Why invent a player with nothing to play on it?

Ahhh... (I hear you say) They were both invented at the same time (Complimentary) Then I understand...

BUT still which was actually FIRST?

If even by a few seconds????


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Thomas Edison made a wax cylinder type record and played it using a needle and foil. Just a guess, but I would say he noticed the needle and foil could transmit sound when run over tiny grooves and he set out to construct grooves in a way that gave a desired sound.

It's amazing what this one man was able to invent. Did he have help?

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they were invented at the same time but the question is which came first the egg or the chicken

maybe currentlysober is having a bad weekend.

the player!

just like the wheel before a cart was built :2 cents:

the recorder came first.

it recorded to the cylinder thing, then switched to a player once it had been recorded.

records came later.

Which came first, the human or the poo?

The record. A recording was made with no way to pay it back to test the method. Now we can play the surviving recordings back.

"The sound files of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville's phonautograms were created using the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's virtual stylus technology, which sought to track the soot-scratched wavy lines as though they were standard record grooves. However, Scott didn?t intend his phonautograms to be played back. Scott recorded the French folksong "Au Clair de la Lune" on April 9, 1860, and deposited the results with the Académie des Sciences in 1861. It remains the earliest clearly recognizable record of the human voice yet recovered. The words have been a matter of controversy, but the latest playback?unveiled in May 2010?establishes them as ?Au clair de la lune, mon ami Pierrot, prête moi?,? rather than ?Au clair de la lune, Pierrot répondit,? as originally announced. The latest work also reveals that Scott had allowed the cylinder to slow down?possibly to a complete stop?between the words ?Pierrot? and ?prête,? perhaps indicating a pause to check how much unrecorded space was left on the sheet.

There's no mention of alien contact in my family - so I have to say no.

(Thomas Edison Jr. is a distant relative)

Edison:

He hung out with other brilliant, industrious, and powerful men of his time in Fort Myers, Florida, along the river in what is now Lee County, Florida and many other wilderness areas of the period.

A small town up the river carries his middle name as its name. It is said he used to camp and fish there with his guests.

An interesting man, if you go to Sanibel, Captiva, Marco Island or any where close to Fort Myers check out his Estate.

Edison's Canadian connection...

Thomas Alva Edison's father was Canadian - born in Nova Scotia (Dutch ancestry). The family later settled in Ontario along the north shores of Lake Erie (Port Burwell and Vienna, Ontario - U.E.L. settlements) during the MacKenzie Rebellion era (which Sam Edison Jr. took part in...and later fled to the U.S.).

The Edison family was basically exiled to the U.S. during the MacKenzie Rebellion.