"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 ...

Wax wasn’t Edison’s first recording technology: The initial phonographs used tin foil. Those machines are on display, too, in a long glass display case that summarizes the early history of ...

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 ...

The machine made indentations on paper ... our first sounds of the red planet The patent for the phonograph was issued on Feb. 19, 1878. Edison suggested possible uses for the device in the ...

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 ...

The Edison phonograph, operated with a hand crank that ... Often, several people from Edison's audience were invited to speak into the machine and to hear their recorded voices played back.

Edison wasn't satisfied with his initial branding -- and came up with 50 alternatives -- but the name ended up sticking. When Thomas Edison sketched out a machine that could record sound onto ...

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 ...