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.
Thomas Alva Edison announced his invention of the first phonograph, a device for recording an â¦ d replaying sound, on November 21 1877 and he demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29 (it was patented on February 19 1878 as US Patent 200,521).he Dictaphone was still in use in the early 1950's. The first flat, circular record was invented in 1887 by Emile Berliner (1851-1929), a German-born American inventor, who also devised the gramophone to play his disks. Berliner's records were originally made of glass, then zinc, and later, hard rubber.