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At the private desk of Thomas A. Edison, Norman R. Speiden, curator of the library on January 27, 1948, studies the inventor's original phonograph, made in 1877. The contents of the desk, as they were found when it was opened in 1946, fifteen years after Edison's death, include a sealed can of lithium, bottle of reduced iron, chlorinated rubber, “Carissa” jelly made by a Mrs. Stevens in 1928, old papers and business letters and contract early phonograph, dating from 1878 to 1890. (Photo by Carl Nesensohn/AP Photo)
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