[Swordmaker]

BTW, Jack Kilby from TI won the Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the chip....it wasn't Intel.
(Noyce had nothing to do with it. When Noyce was making notes in his note-book about a chip, Kilby already had a working model)

When a technology’s time is due, it is due. . . There will be multiple people working on it, it becomes a race to the patent office. The sole exception to this appears to be the invention of the phonograph. A truly inspired invention from someone in Edison’s industrial laboratory (probably not Edison).

[TexasGator]

There are multiple presentations and papers by Edison on his progress with the invention of the phonograph.

[blam]

"There will be multiple people working on it, it becomes a race to the patent office."

Yup. Excellent Book.

[Openurmind]

The “Phonautograph”, Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1857, 20 years before Edison in France.

https://patch.com/new-jersey/westorange/thomas-edison-park-who-really-invented-sound-recording-video