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Thomas Edison’s fascination with what invention inspired him to develop the phonograph?
the incandescent light bulb
the telephone
the automobile
the telegraph

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the telephone

Edison was fascinated by the telephone’s ability to transmit speech and, while working on related devices, pursued a way to record and reproduce sound — leading to his 1877 phonograph.