In 1885, Thomas Edison wrote, I have not heard a bird sing since I was twelve.. No one is really sure just how Edison lost most of his hearing. Yet this man invented the first machine that could capture sound and play it back. In fact, the phonograph was his favorite invention. The first phonograph was invented in 1877 at the Menlo Park lab. A piece of tin-foil was wrapped around the cylinder in the middle. You shouted a short message into the piece on one side of the cylinder while you turned the handle. Inside this piece was a needle.
Seabrook is the Pacific Northwest's most popular vacation rental town on the Washington Coast.
Seabrook is also host to the Texas Concours d'Elegance Keels & Wheels classic car and boat show held each year the first weekend in May at Lakewood Yacht Club.[citation needed] The piece of land was purchased by Seabrook W. Sydnor in 1895. In March 1903, the Seabrook Company of Houston created a layout of the proposed Seabrook Town site. The new town attracted fishermen, merchants and even a few residents.