Experts told Edison to never claim this invention. In 1877, when early reports of Edison’s phonograph hit the newspapers, the reaction was not awe. It was ridicule. A professor actually wrote to the New York Sun and said the “idea of a talking machine” was ridiculous. He advised Edison to deny the story, protect his reputation, and quietly move on. In other words, stay in his lane. He ignored every bit of that advice. Instead, he invited the skeptics into the lab. He set the tinfoil cylinder spi

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