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Francois Lambert (13 June 1851 – 1937) was a French American inventor. Lambert was born in Lyon, France and then moved to the United States in 1876 and became a citizen in 1893. Lambert is currently in the Guinness World Book of Records for the oldest playable recording on a machine called the Phonograph. Lambert was also famous for inventing the modern typewriter.

Work

Twelve years after arriving in the U.S., Lambert started a water meter company (The Thomson Water Meter Co.) with a friend called John Thomson.

Whilst holding his company, Lambert then built his own Phonograph. The Phonograph is a recording device and Lambert recorded the oldest ever recording (Experimental Talking Clock) on his original.

Lambert then had completed his main invention, today's typewriter and then sold it to the Gramophone Co. Ltd., for which he received USD$20,000. The typewriter started becoming very popular in the 1900s.

Lambert's water meter company was sold outright to the Neptune Water Meter Co. and Lambert received USD$800,000.

Personal Life

Lambert married twice, firstly with Jeanne-Marie Donval (whom he had five children with) who died from an unknown cause and then married Jeannette Justine Lawson Ebbs.

When Lambert died in 1937, he left his estate to his second wife, USD$20,000 to his daughter Jeanne and USD$30,000 to his only grandchild, Martha.

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Frank L. Lambert, is a Professor Emeritus (Chemistry) of Occidental College, Los Angeles (CV). He is known for his energy dispersal conception of entropy which he discusses in his collection of " entropy.com " websites.
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Edison cylinder phonograph ca. 1899]] The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s.

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typewriter is a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic device with a set of "keys" that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a document, usually paper.
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A water meter is a device used to measure the volume of water usage. This article provides an overview of technical aspects of water meters. The worldwide prevalence of metering as well as its economic benefits and costs are covered in the separate article on water metering.
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Edison cylinder phonograph ca. 1899]] The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s.

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Edison cylinder phonograph ca. 1899]] The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s.

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The Experimental Talking Clock (circa 1878) is listed in both the Guinness Book of World Records and The Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound as being the world's oldest playable sound recording.
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typewriter is a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic device with a set of "keys" that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a document, usually paper.
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typewriter is a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic device with a set of "keys" that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a document, usually paper.
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A water meter is a device used to measure the volume of water usage. This article provides an overview of technical aspects of water meters. The worldwide prevalence of metering as well as its economic benefits and costs are covered in the separate article on water metering.
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Recording is a process of capturing data or translating information to a format stored on a storage medium often referred to as a record.

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Edison cylinder phonograph ca. 1899]] The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s.

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Usage of these terms is not uniform across the English-speaking world (see below).
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typewriter is a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic device with a set of "keys" that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a document, usually paper.
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