by Fabielle Georges The Cleveland Museum of Art Author’s note: This piece is the introduction to my memoir , Depression: A How-To Guide on What Not to Do , where I discuss depression, addiction, and mothering under the guise of a self-help book. In 1877 thirty-year-old inventor Thomas Edison recorded “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on a cylinder phonograph in one of the first reproductions of recorded sound. His invention called for tin foil to be wrapped around a rotating cylinder.