The Talking Machine Patent Archive

Patents you could hear

Patented May 4, 1886

If an object in your hands says PAT. MAY 4, 1886, it may be one of these.

PatentTitleInventorOf
US 341,212REPRODUCING SOUNDS FROM PHONOGRAPH RECORDS.Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester A. Bell, and Sumner TainterWashington, District of Columbia
US 341,214RECORDING AND REPRODUCING SPEECH AND OTHER SOUNDS.Chichester A. Bell and Sumner TainterWashington, D.C.
US 341,288APPARATUS FOR RECORDING AND REPRODUCING SOUNDSSumner TainterWashington, District of Columbia

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