If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger.

Edison conducted the first demonstration of the machine before journalists in New York. Their reception was enthusiastic, and news of Edison’s “speaking phonograph” was widely distributed—people ...

In a way, of course, all this goes back to Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph 80 years earlier. Back then, he thought he was inventing a playback dictaphone machine, which would make ...

Country being one of America's most foundational musical art forms, its earliest recording throws many of the genre's ...

That changed in 1877 when Thomas Edison unveiled his ... in an attempt to eradicate the phonograph’s working-class vaudeville associations, the Victor Talking Machine Company recorded the ...

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) invented the tin foil phonograph – a machine that recorded sound by indenting a sheet of tin foil into a groove in a cylinder. A later wax version was ...

But Edison now was dreaming of a machine that would reproduce human speech. Only a year after licensing the pen, Edison produced the phonograph and became world famous. Two years after ...

No mention of the senior Edison seems complete without crediting his most impressive contributions to the world. In 1877, he ...

People crave a good story. Perhaps that's why these five far-fetched food fantasies on April Fools' Day in previous years fooled the public hungry for a good story — and maybe something new and ...

On December 7, 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph at the New York City offices of the nation's leading technical weekly publication, Scientific American. The following report set off ...

Bell demonstrated his telephone and Thomas Edison his phonograph at the Smithsonian Castle Building ... Henry's Family National Museum of American History Telephone Answering Machine Component ...