ABSTRACT
An early promoter of the Edison phonograph in Brazil. He gave demonstrations in Belém in 1891, and in Rio de Janeiro in 1892, using the machine he called the Máquina Figner (it was the Perfected Phonograph). Figner was a pioneer producer of recordings in Brazil (1897). He was an agent for International Zonophone and Casa Edison. In 1909 he acquired Brazilian patent #3465, for double-sided discs, from Odeon, and took legal actions against all other double-sided labels. He also attempted to register this patent in other countries, and was in some cases successful, but the production of double-sided discs had already gone too far for him to have much impact on it.
