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The Multiphone
From: American Stories Curriculum
Learning by Doing: Design a Music Machine

This Multiphone is one of many different models of coin-operated phonographs that emerged from the late 1880s on. The Multiphone Company was in operation from 1905-08. Although the Multiphone contains parts invented by Thomas A. Edison, it is not an Edison company product.

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