Timeline November 1877

Events in November 1877 2

• 1877 Edison invents the phonograph First machine to record and play back sound Thomas Edison recorded and played back the first known sound recording of a human voice, reciting 'Mary Had a Little Lamb,' in late November 1877. He filed a patent for the phonograph on 24 December 1877. The invention launched the recorded sound industry.
• 1877 Death of Louisa May Alcott's mother Abigail The model for Marmee Abigail May Alcott, reformer and one of Massachusetts' first paid social workers, dies at Concord.