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.

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of ... communication through the telegraph and telephone led to his first major invention: the phonograph. After investigating acoustic ...

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 ...

That changed in 1877 when Thomas Edison unveiled his phonograph ... “The three-minute pop song is basically an invention of the phonograph,” says Mark Katz, a professor of music at the ...

In January 1876, Mary gave birth to Thomas Edison, Jr. The inventor quickly nicknamed his ... Edison produced the phonograph and became world famous. Two years after, he gave the world light.

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

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

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 ...

In 1877, he used his phonograph machine to record ... of tests so that he wouldn’t risk offending Edison. Thomas Jr. dreamed ...

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 ...