It's almost inconceivable to write a prehistory of music because Edison invents the phonograph in 1877 and prior to that, we have no record of any sound.

写一部音乐史前史几乎是不可思议的，因为爱迪生在1877年发明了留声，在那之前，我们没有任何声音记录。

Would you play the reverse side of that phonograph record please?

请播放那张唱片的反面好吗？

The phonograph and radio had been invented in the late eighteen hundreds.

19世纪晚期，照片和收音已经被发明出来了。

Here's a demonstration of recording and replaying sound with Edison's phonograph.

这是演示爱迪生留声的录制和回放。

I've got another shelf that's gonna be for your phonograph.

还有另一个架子，那是放你的照片的。

Even when Thomas Edison came to him with his brand new invention, the phonograph.

连爱迪生抱着自己新发明的留声找他也无济于事。

It occurs to me that it's spinning like the turntable of my Web-cor phonograph, on which I used to play Fats Domino and now play Dylan and the Dave Clark Five.

我觉转我的Webcor牌唱，小时候我用唱听法茨·多米诺，现在我听鲍勃·迪伦和戴夫·克拉克五人组（一支英国流行摇滚乐团，1960年代成为继披头士之后又一支获国际流行的英国乐团）。

Friedman, who buys and sells Steinways, purchased the piano last year, and said he was surprised by the tooth marks left by the inventor of the phonograph, a music playing device.

买卖施坦威钢琴的弗里德曼去年购买了这架钢琴，并表示他对这位留声（一种音乐播放设备）的发明者留下的牙印感到惊讶。

At his laboratory in Menlo Park, he created many important inventions, like the light bulb, the telephone, and the phonograph, a machine that can record and play back sound.

在位于门洛帕克的实验室里，他创造了许多重要的发明，电灯泡，电话以及留声，一种可以记录和回放声音的器。

In 1876, just one year before the phonograph was invented, he wrote a short story imagining a sinister takeover of an entire town by a rhyming jingle.

在1876年的时候，正是留声被发明的前一年，他写了一篇短文，想着押着韵的叮铛声凶兆般的掌控住整个城镇。

Look on your camera or phonograph, or any other machine in your home, and see if you can find the word Patented.

看看你的照相或留声，或者家里其他任何器，看看能不能找到专利这个词。

He first made his name by perfecting the telegraph before going on to invent the stock ticker, and the phonograph.

改进电报让他第一次声名远播 之后他又发明了股票自动报价和留声。

Over time a smaller version was invented, and soldiers took the phonograph to war, almost like an old-school boombox.

随后，袖珍留声问世了，并被士兵们带到了战场上，几乎一个老式的扬声器。

I've been to your concerts, and we have you on the phonograph and everything. Oh, I just enjoy it!

我去过你的演唱会，我有你的唱片和其他所有与你有关的东西。哦，我太喜欢它们了！”

Pressing his teeth into the wood of phonographs and pianos helped Edison experience the music in his skull.

爱迪生通过把自己的牙齿咬进留声和钢琴的木头里帮助自己体验头骨里的音乐。

The phonograph was another Edison invention.

留声是爱迪生的另一项发明。

But he was known to bite into phonographs and pianos to help him experience music as his hearing worsened.

但众所周知，当他的听力恶化时，他会咬留声和钢琴来帮助自己体验音乐。

Edison invented the phonograph in 1877.

爱迪生于1877年发明了留声。

But actually it's like a wooden box and this is an old phonograph.

但实际上它一个木盒，这是一个旧留声。

That was the beginning of the phonograph.

这是留声的开端。