The Edison's phonograph courteously began by enquiring if audience present were in good health, it informed them that it was very well. The audience were quite intrigued by the questions asked by this Edison talking machine. After the captivated crowd had calm down the talking phonograph asked if they liked the phonograph, and bid them a convivial good night." Thomas Edison got his idea for the recorder when he had worked as a telegraph operator for the Western Union office in Indianapolis. Thomas Edison during one of his night shift contemplated that he could put together two old Morse code registers to capture inward bound codes which he would recoup later. He figured that he could go to sleep while he was on the night shift and recoup the messages when he woke up later. That was the idea that led Thomas Edison to the discovery of the cylinder phonograph. In returning to the history of RCA, we noted that the RCA Corporation was founded during World War I due to the fact that the Assistant Navy Secretary, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was convinced that radio patents should be under the United States of America patent. The American Navy Assistant Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt found out that the British Marconi Company was about to buy out of General Electric. Franklin Roosevelt did some negotiating with General Electric and not only purchased American Marconi, but proceeded to take control of the association of the American radio in October of 1919. They later merged with Westinghouse because that was the obvious thing to do and hey presto: The RCA Multi-Corporation was born. The RCA Corporation became highly successful as the achieved revenues of well over $50 million in just a space of six years. |
