12:01 PM PST 12/31/2014 by. Serial fans have started keeping an eye on The Intercept after the publication scored a coveted interview with Jay Wilds, the key witness in Maryland's case against Adnan Syed for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee.
Take 1. The record player was originally invented in America by Thomas A. Edison the creator of the light bulb and other inventions. It was invented by Thomas in 1877. The first records were made out of tinfoil which had a spiral groove which went up and down.
Invention. The invention of the 33 1/3 long-playing record had its beginnings in the invention of the 78-rpm shellac disc. During the early part of the twentieth century, recording companies struggled to get beyond the three and four minute playing barriers that had been in place since the phonographâs inception.