Edison's Phonograph Doll
Muñeca parlante Edison
- Date
- 1877 (invención) / 1890 (comercialización) · confidence high
- Place
- West Orange, New Jersey, United States
- Credited to
- Thomas Edison (1877; marketed 1890)
- Field
- Tools
What it is
22-inch toy doll with a miniature built-in phonograph that played a nursery rhyme when a handle was cranked; invented by Thomas Edison in 1877 and marketed, unsuccessfully, in 1890.
What it led to
- first talking toy in history
- spurred miniaturization of the phonograph
- precedent for later electronic talking toys
- lessons on the fragility of wax media in consumer products