Today, class, we are going to discuss music. Music is a form of
artistic expression that manifests through sound. Sometimes, it
is the cause of spontaneous, often subconscious, physical
movement in humans, e.g. dancing, head banging, toe-tapping,
moshing or singing along. As we discussed in Well-Known Facts:
American History Edition, Thomas Edison invented time and the
electric washboard. In that edition, we discussed time at great
length, but we glossed over the electric washboard. The electric
washboard was actually the precursor to the electric guitar and
is responsible for amplified music as we know it today. The
washboard used for laundry For a long time, washboards were used
pretty much exclusively to wash clothing. Water and soap were
placed in a tub and clothing was run up and down against the
corrugated surface of a washboard to clean it. Thomas Edison,
having just completed inventing time, found that he had a lot of
it on his hands. He decided to do something about this clothes
washing business. The