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 ...

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

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 ...

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) invented the tin foil phonograph – a machine that recorded sound by indenting a sheet of tin foil into a groove in a cylinder. A later wax version was ...

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

Thomas Edison is often credited with being the first person to record sound ... 20 years before Edison invented his phonograph. Video by Sanjana Bhambhani We explore how maple syrup can be ...

A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social ... created the doll in 1890 after he invented the phonograph. It has a mini phonograph mechanism inside its body ...