Suffix [edit]. -en. 1  Suffix for definite form singular of many common gender nouns, in particular those which end in a consonant or a stressed-i; see also-n. 2  Suffix for definite form plural of neuter nouns ending with consonant.
Events Leading up to Heliograph When NiÃ©pce first began working with his son who would draw the images they used in lithography because NiÃ©pce could not draw well. During that time the camera obscura was only used as a guide for drawing. This collaboration stopped when his son was drafted into the army and went to fight in the Battle of Waterloo.
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 Berliner's records were originally made of glass, then zinc, and later, hard rubber.