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THE MUSIC MAN

Sound is least understood of all the things which have baffled the brains of science. But inventive genius has at last stumbled upon a clue, which promises to lead to the solution of the mystery of sound. The clue is the talking machine.

Emil Berliner, the telephone inventor, cleared the way for achievement about 12 years ago when he produced a queer contrivance, which he called the “gramophone,” that possessed the remarkable power of receiving sounds and repeating them again at the will

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