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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...