“In his first test of the phonograph, which likely occurred on Dec. 6, Edison recited the nursery rhyme ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ into the mouthpiece as he turned the crank. When he played the recording back, he was astonished to hear his words repeated.”
From a slideshow at Reuters.
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Law enforcement sources told the gossip site TMZ that the 42-year-old rapper turned TV military cop was woken by a noise at about 2 a.m. and found the intruder downstairs.
LL, aka James Todd Smith, confronted the would-be burglar, left him with a few bruises as a memento and detained him for the police. The suspect will be charged with burglary, cops said.
