When Mrs. Elizabeth Naidi Hetman of Sandisfield came to America from Russia just before World War I, she worked for Thomas Alva Edison at his ...

I remember the moment I got interested in music. I was 10 years old, sitting in a friend’s attic in our eastside Dayton ...

He couldn’t possibly have imagined that in just 25 years, his ‘favourite invention’ would travel to India in its evolved ...

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 ...

Travelling overseas for LPs, waiting a year for spare parts for turntable upgrades — record listeners have kept their passion ...

As a songwriter, Billy Joel had hit upon something resonant by avoiding viewing the subject of love as a songwriter, landing a hit for Columbia Records.

New Jersey has been the birthplace of numerous inventions over the years. Of course, Thomas Edison comes to mind. Known as ...

Discover the stories of influential Benzie County women from 1850-1950 in an unpublished manuscript available at the Museum.

Aline Browning set out to find answers when her father died from lung cancer following a 25-year career at what was once ...

It was really cool. We found original Jeep parts from World War II. An Edison phonograph was cool. Before vinyl records, but the same technology and shaped differently. There is a wine collection ...

The Bryant Library in Roslyn recently reissued their 2021 short documentary feature “The Two Mrs. Mackays,” which chronicles ...