"The phonograph will undoubtedly be liberally devoted to music," Edison predicted, with stunning accuracy, in 1878. "Edison immediately tested the machine by speaking the nursery rhyme into the ...

In 1877, nearly 20 years later, Thomas Edison’s “talking machine” became the first ... D.C., in April 1878 to exhibit his phonograph and talk to Congress and the President, and it was ...

Ironically, Edison was deaf yet still invented the phonograph. While he did create ... You can hear the machine play and then see the box come off. Oddly, people were recording things before ...

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 ...

he began working to improve Edison’s phonograph, and in 1886 he patented the graphophone, a business dictation machine that used wax cylinders to record and play sound. “[Bell] wanted to ...

He created a machine that translated the vibrations ... He had just invented what he called the Edison Speaking Phonograph. The same year, Edison developed an improved microphone transmitter ...

One of our telegraph machines, which was over 170 years ... from the light bulb to the phonograph. They even have some of Edison's original patents. "It's just such a unique piece of history.