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    Thomas Edison invented three important devices: 1) The motion picture camera, which took a series of photographs on film that could be projected to create the illusion of motion. 2) The phonograph, an early device for recording and playing sound using a tinfoil sheet wrapped around a grooved cylinder. 3) Waxed paper, which Edison invented an efficient way to manufacture paper coated with wax to make it moisture-proof and useful for cooking and food storage.

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    Thomas Edison invented three important devices: 1) The motion picture camera, which took a series of photographs on film that could be projected to create the illusion of motion. 2) The phonograph, an early device for recording and playing sound using a tinfoil sheet wrapped around a grooved cylinder. 3) Waxed paper, which Edison invented an efficient way to manufacture paper coated with wax to make it moisture-proof and useful for cooking and food storage.

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    7th Grade again,i just had to write about some inventions by Edison *yawns*.

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    Thomas Edison invented three important devices: 1) The motion picture camera, which took a series of photographs on film that could be projected to create the illusion of motion. 2) The phonograph, an early device for recording and playing sound using a tinfoil sheet wrapped around a grooved cylinder. 3) Waxed paper, which Edison invented an efficient way to manufacture paper coated with wax to make it moisture-proof and useful for cooking and food storage.

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    Thomas Edison invented three important devices: 1) The motion picture camera, which took a series of photographs on film that could be projected to create the illusion of motion. 2) The phonograph, an early device for recording and playing sound using a tinfoil sheet wrapped around a grooved cylinder. 3) Waxed paper, which Edison invented an efficient way to manufacture paper coated with wax to make it moisture-proof and useful for cooking and food storage.

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    Inventions By Edison

    By:Haleigh Krantz

    I wrote this essay on three inventions Thomas Alva Edison created.The Motion
    Picture Camera,The Phonograph, and Waxed Paper. All of these are brilliant in
    their own way. Waxed paper is useful for cooking adn Edison created an efficient
    way to make it. And what would be do without cameras and films? Then we have the
    phonograph which was basically an early stereo or CD player.
    Here is the history of these three apparatus' .

    The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated
    pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope".
    Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched
    through a slit in the zoopraxiscope. However, this was a far cry from motion
    pictures as we know them today. Modern motion picture making began with the
    invention of the motion picture camera.
    The Motion Picture Camera takes a rapid series of photographs on a strip of
    film,once developed it can be projected as a motion picture.Human eyes and brain
    merge the separate pictures together to generate the illusion,this is called the
    "persistence of vision".Basically,when the shutter is open, the film is
    illuminated. When it is completely covering the film gate, the film is being moved
    one frame further by one or two claws which advance the film by pulling it through
    the holes.One of the "Downfalls" is that most film cameras do not record sound
    internally; instead, the sound is captured separately by a precision audio device.

    The earliest known invention of a phonographic recording device was the


    phonautograph, invented by Frenchman �douard-L�on Scott de Martinville and
    patented on March 25, 1857. It could transcribe sound to a visible medium, but had
    no means to play back the sound after it was recorded. Seems kinda useless doesn't
    it?
    The device consisted of a horn or barrel that focused sound waves onto a membrane
    to which a hog's bristle was attached, causing the bristle to move and enabling it
    to inscribe a visual medium. Initially, the phonautograph made recordings onto a
    lamp-blackened glass plate.
    Thomas Edison announced his invention of the first phonograph, a device for
    recording AND replaying sound, on November 21, 1877 and he demonstrated the device
    for the first time on November 29 . Edison's early phonographs recorded onto a
    tinfoil sheet phonograph cylinder using an up-down ("hill-and-dale") motion of the
    stylus. The tinfoil sheet was wrapped around a grooved cylinder, and the sound was
    recorded as indentations into the foil. Edison's early patents show that he also
    considered the idea that sound could be recorded as a spiral onto a disc, but
    Edison concentrated his efforts on cylinders, since the groove on the outside of a
    rotating cylinder provides a constant velocity to the stylus in the groove, which
    Edison considered more "scientifically correct".

    Wax paper (also called waxed paper) is a kind of paper that is made moisture
    proof through the application of wax.
    The practice of oiling paper in order to make it semi-translucent or moisture-
    proof goes back at least to medieval times. Thomas Edison claimed to have invented
    wax paper in 1872, but what he really invented was a cheap and efficient means to
    manufacture such paper.
    Wax paper is commonly used in cooking, for its non-stick properties, and wrapping
    food for storage, as it keeps water out or in. It is also used in arts and crafts.
    Another use of wax paper is to apply wax to objects. By rubbing the wax paper on
    an object the wax will rub off the paper and onto the object. This is useful for
    adding a slight polish or to reduce friction.

    As you can see,Inventions in the 1800's were amazing. Opening the door for
    future inventors to improve on and perfect these devices.

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