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Presser-foot

Mechanical drawing of an Edison phonograph attachment showing a spectacle-frame arm with a threaded presser-foot bar, a pivoted determining-point lever, and a locking mechanism positioned above a cylindrical phonogram-blank labeled U.

AUTOMATIC DETERMINING DEVICE FOR PHONOGRAPHS.Thomas A. Edison · June 17, 1890

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