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 ...

That enabled the scientists to compensate for the fact that Scott's device - like Edison's first phonographs much later - was hand-cranked and wobbly. They have been analyzing sound waves from old ...

It was captured in Paris by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in the late 1850s, nearly two decades before Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone call (1876) or Thomas Edison’s phonograph ...

Thomas Alva Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park whose genius ushered in a new era of light and sound for humankind, invented the phonograph at his New Jersey laboratory on this day in history ...

The first phonograph, which he built in 1877, contained a stylus that etched grooves into a rotating, tinfoil-covered cylinder in response to the pressure produced by sound vibration. The embossed ...

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 ...

His 2020 project on the early Southern California phonograph industry helped identify the first-ever commercial recording made in Los Angeles.

Talking Doll Records Made of Tin In search of a market for his invention the phonograph, Edison first attempted to make talking dolls during 1888. The prototype model described in laboratory notes ...