Tainter, Charles Sumner
Born: 1854 AD
Died: 1940 AD, at 86 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
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Died: 1940 AD, at 86 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None
US inventor
co-invented 1st commercially practical phonograph, replacing Edison's tinfoil cylinder by wax-coated cardboard cylinder and replacing rigid stylus by flexible stylus (patented 1886)
invented dictograph
1st person to transmit sound using light
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