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Detailed explanation-1: -The phonograph was developed as a result of Thomas Edison’s work on two other inventions, the telegraph and the telephone. In 1877, Edison was working on a machine that would transcribe telegraphic messages through indentations on paper tape, which could later be sent over the telegraph repeatedly.

Detailed explanation-2: -Prior to this point, the earliest known record of a human voice was thought to be an 1877 phonograph recording by Thomas Edison.

Detailed explanation-3: -The technology that made the modern music business possible came into existence in the New Jersey laboratory where Thomas Edison created the first device to both record sound and play it back.

Detailed explanation-4: -phonograph, also called record player, instrument for reproducing sounds by means of the vibration of a stylus, or needle, following a groove on a rotating disc.