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 a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the HoustonâSugar LandâBaytown metropolitan area and Harris County. The population was 9,443 at the 2000 census and estimated to be 11,182 in 2006. Seabrook is known for its fish markets on Waterfront Drive where resident shrimpers and fishermen bring in their catches daily. Besides bordering the bay, the city encompasses marshes though which runoff from inland fields drain to the bay.