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 ...

Country being one of America's most foundational musical art forms, its earliest recording throws many of the genre's ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...

He was 84 years old. For the record: Edison didn't consider the commercial light bulb to be his greatest invention. He preferred the phonograph. The king and queen of Edisonia wear crowns and ...

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 ...