Forget Quote by will.i.am

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

— Thomas A. Edison

The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found…

— Dave Barry

The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell.

— Marvin Ammori

Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

— Anonymous

“Edison brimmed over with moneymaking ideas for the phonograph. He licensed two Brooklyn men to incorporate it into clocks and watches that would call…

— Mike Wallace

“Edison invented the lightbulb the way Steve Jobs invented the MP3 player: he wasn’t the first, but he was the first to make something…

— Steven Johnson

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or…

— David Antin

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in…

— Steven Johnson

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.”

— Kevin Kelly

The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.

— Mark Kurlansky

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once…

— Kevin Kelly

I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds. If you'd asked me…

— Jonny Greenwood