But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, which was how the original Edison phonograph worked. [Our Own Devices] did a video earlier showing one of these devices ...

Now, 118 years later, people including Don Gfell are briskly trading Edison’s and other antique phonographs. Gfell grew up in Milan, Ohio, Edison’s birthplace, and became intrigued with the ...

Recording originally made on a phonograph in St. Louis in 1878 It opens with a 23-second cornet solo Made on a sheet of tinfoil placed on cylinder of Edison phonograph SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP ...

Thomas Edison, the inventor, founded his own company to make phonographs. He also invented movies, the light bulb and many other things, but failed to create a cement that could be used to make a ...

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 ...

Edison would be even more astounded if he could come back and take a look at what has happened to his invention over the last century. That first phonograph was barely capable of reproducing the ...

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 player piano.