Edison and Popular Culture Every time we play recorded music or go to the movies, we enjoy the benefits of Thomas Edison's genius and hard work Although Edison is perhaps most famous for his light bulb, his inventions in sound recording and motion pictures helped give rise to the entertainment industry as we know it today. After his successful development of the first tinfoil phonograph in 1877, Edison and his researchers made countless improvements to the phonograph, constantly striving to achieve the finest sound reproduction possible. At first, Edison thought the phonograph primarily suitable only for Where would an explanation of why projection was superior to the peephole kinetoscope fit best? the third paragraph the fourth paragraph the sixth paragraph