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 ...

Feb. 8, 1917 It was all smiles at the People’s State Bank on Monday morning at the opening of their new quarters in a tapestry brick and Kasota stone building, measuring 30 x ...

Some of Thomas Edison's inventions included: The phonograph, the very first machine that could capture and play back sound. The stencil-pen, a writing instrument powered by electricity and that is ...

It was sold by the Thomas A. Edison Jr. Chemical Company, an outfit ostensibly owned by the son of famed inventor Thomas Edison. The family name had become synonymous with innovation; most people ...

THOMAS ALVA EDISON was born in the then village of Milan ... came a series of innovations in telegraphy and telephony, the phonograph, photography, and in all that appertained to the generation ...

Chemical developments originating from the West Orange laboratory included plastics and waxes for disc and cylinder phonograph records, nickel-iron alkaline electric storage batteries, and ...