Thomas Edison invented the phonograph on August 12, 1877. It "will undoubtedly be liberally devoted to music," Edison predicted with stunning accuracy in 1878.

Cros mailed his paper to the French Academy of Science, where it was filed away and forgotten while Edison’s research went on. Edison, as it turned out, discovered the phonograph almost by accident.

From left, Uriah Painter, correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer; Edison assistant Charles Batchelor and Thomas Edison with the Edison phonograph in Mathew Brady?s photography studio in ...

It's scratchy, lasts only 78 seconds and features the world's first recorded blooper. The recording was originally made on a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878.

Anniversary of the phonograph: Thomas Edison invention that changed the world. This bizarre invention has almost definitely had a massive impact on your life – and you likely don’t even know ...

Still, it’s the phonograph that’s near and dear to Kurdyla’s heart — just as it was for Edison, too. “The phonograph was Edison’s favorite invention, by his own admission,” Kurdyla says.

We're used to sound recordings. Music (in multiple genres), audiobooks, phone messages, recordings of family history, alert boops and beeps on our phones...even the happy little tune my hearing ...

Prior to Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877, the world had no means of recording the human voice; and the enjoyment of prerecorded music was limited to the ...

Thomas Edison seated beside a phonograph in 1921. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (The original image is no longer available, please contact KCRW if you need ...

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Aug. 12, 1877, is the date popularly given for Thomas Alva Edison’s completion of the model for the first phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders.