The Phonograph

Thomas Edison invented this in 1877. It's purpose was to work like a telephone and telegraph. He believed that a telephone message could be recorded and played back over and over again. He used the diaphram to figure out how to get the messages to play back. The speaking vibrations engraved the message into the paper. Later on he used metal cylinders instead of paper. He found that this worked better than te paper. It was somewhat of a popular item back in that time period.

Chapters 10/11

These chapters are about the steps that leaders took to get us further then the past years. During this time period a lot of reforms were being made which made things a little more fair for men at least. Luxury was also a big thing during this time. Also during this time Europe was making it's pesence known in Africa and other places around there. In these chapters Europe enters a period of colonization.