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Quick Answer. The first working gun silencer was developed by Hiram P. Maxim in 1908, who started selling the first units when the invention was patented, in 1909. Hiram P. Maxim is the son of U.S. born inventor Hiram Smith Maxim who invented the first portable machine gun. Continue Reading.
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 Berliner's records were originally made of glass, then zinc, and later, hard rubber.