Looking for ways to herald a new commercial version of the talking machine. The manager convinced Mr. Perry to record a talk about his life as a young man. The endeavour must have been too strenuous for Mr. Perry; because he died soon afterwards. Nonetheless, the record contained the reminiscences of a man who was born in the second year of President Washington's first term in the White House office. Although the wax cylinder was carefully placed in an office safe, they were never able to decipher how it disappeared from the safe. Could they have forgotten where they had placed the recorded voice of Mr. Perry? Even though the wax cylinder was vigilantly placed in the office safe, for security purposes and its whereabouts has never been solved!. It is difficult to understand how on earth could the wax cylinder just simply vanished without a trace. As mention on the previous page, The U.S. Patent Office is linked in many ways with the history of the phonograph but on the contrary Thomas Edison had filed an estimated 500 to 600 unsuccessful or derelict submission as well. Unfortunately, the names given Thomas Edison's patents are far too asymmetrical to make simple word searches an accurate means of finding patents for any particular technologies. Thomas Edison received many patents in countries other than the United States again there is no complete list that exists. In one volume of the Dyer and Martin's 1910 biography on Thomas Edison's Life and Inventions within its pages it contains an anthology of around 1,239 non US. patents awarded to Edison in 34 countries, but in some cases Thomas Edison removed several of the claims from an original application to filed a new application to cover those claims. |
