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Charles Sumner Tainter

Charles Sumner Tainter
Charles Sumner Tainter, American engineer and inventor (d. 1940)

Charles Sumner Tainter was an American scientific instrument maker, engineer and inventor, best known for his collaborations with Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, Alexander's father-in-law Gardiner Hubbard, and for his significant improvements to Thomas Edison's phonograph, resulting in the Graphophone, one version of which was the first Dictaphone.

25 April 1854

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