Hope everyone is enjoying their "Labor Day."
It may be known that the first literary reference to the invention of the phonograph was in a novel by Jules Verne (1879). But not many know that it was also illustrated there in a woodcut, and was not a fanciful rendition at all, but a specific model (which also used a clockwork mechanism).
The maker of that historic machine (the first offered for general sale) has long been listed (even in the Edison Papers Project) as E. Hardy, but because of a mistaken Doctoral Thesis in 1986, that initial was also widely expanded to "Edme Hardy." A side effect of the new research shows that this was a serious error - so correct your notes and/or websites.
https://www.academia.edu/85620184/Memory_Jules_Verne_and_the_First_Phonograph
(This is a free website)
Allen
Allen Koenigsberg
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