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.

That changed in 1877 when Thomas Edison unveiled his phonograph. It wasn’t the first such device to record and play back audio, but it was the first generally reliable one: scratchy and nearly ...

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 ...

Once the basic principle of the phonograph was discovered, the years of arduous work on its development by Edison and others dealt largely with the composition and handling of materials for ...

Edison, an Ohio native who moved to West Orange ... historical park — created the doll in 1890 after he invented the phonograph. It has a mini phonograph mechanism inside its body that plays ...

But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, which was how the original Edison phonograph worked. [Our Own Devices] did a video earlier showing one of these devices ...

Thomas Edison, the great American inventor who also invented the phonograph. But not everyone knows the drama behind inventing the lightbulb. Did Edison REALLY invent the lightbulb?

Only a year after licensing the pen, Edison produced the phonograph and became world famous. Two years after, he gave the world light. By 1881, the same Menlo Park factory that had churned out ...

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 ...

The bad boy (man?) of inventing is back! And he's going to sing all about the inventions that he totally "invented".