FIRST PHONOGRAPHE&MP 93.008 Phonograph October 1937 Silent for half a century, the first phonograph is opened in the presence of the daughters of the inventor Alexander Graham Bell, his great-grandson, and Dr. C. G. Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. [daughter's names were Mrs. Grosvenor and Mrs. Fairchild]
[reference 1925-1949 Office of the Secretary -
Smithsonian Institution] |