One of Edison’s favorite creations, and the one he was the proudest of, was the phonograph. While tinkering with one of his inventions, a device to record ... for the home in 1896, and it ...

Q: These are pictures of an Edison Records Coil by Thomas A ... They were played on phonographs. Phonograph cylinders were made of wax and produced in massive quantities. A picture of an Edison ...

This bizarre recording, an Edison Gold Moulded Record from circa 1904–1908 titled ... recording by paying a nickel to listen to it on a phonograph in a public venue; the theatre critic ...

Antique phonographs, restored and shining like day one, sit atop period furniture. Snyder shows a visitor a 1901 Edison Home Phonograph ... boxes of wax cylinder records and phonographic paraphern ...

According to This Day in History “Edison stumbled on one of his great inventions–the phonograph– while working on a way to record telephone communication at his laboratory in Menlo Park ...

Edison wasn't satisfied with his initial branding -- and came up with 50 alternatives -- but the name ended up sticking. When Thomas Edison sketched out a machine that could record sound onto ...

Thomas Alva Edison ... invented the phonograph at his New Jersey laboratory on this day in history, Aug. 12, 1877. It was the earliest version of the record turntable that became the predominant ...

A pair of phonographs — two beauties ... but he’s found a home in the old brick laboratory buildings that were mortared by Thomas Edison’s inspiration. He lives with his wife close by ...