The Edison Blue Amberol records came out in 1912 and were far superior to the earlier wax cylinders. If you had one today, how could you play it? Easy. Just build [Palingenesis’] record player.

In the late 1800s, Thomas Edison got into the doll business. Not long after inventing the phonograph, the prolific entrepreneur imagined a line of toys that would make various sounds, like a train ...

Thomas Edison ... the phonograph’s holder before winding up the phonograph using a lever on the side of the device. After adjusting the phonograph’s horn, the cylinder begins to roll and ...

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Thomas Alva Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park whose genius ushered in a new era of light and sound for humankind, invented the phonograph at his New Jersey laboratory on this day in history ...

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MANY OF WHICH TRANSFORMED LIFE AS WE KNOW IT. EARLY ON, COOK WROTE THIS ALMOST 120 YEAR OLD EDISON PHONOGRAPH FITTINGLY CRANKS OUT MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME. INSIDE THE PLACE, EDISON HIMSELF ONCE ...

MILAN, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Edison's gas storage assets have attracted offers from four Italian and international suitors, setting the stage for a transaction that could be worth more than 600 ...

"It became a national sensation." The Edison phonograph, operated with a hand crank that turned a drum wrapped with recordable tinfoil, sold for $95.50 in 1878 -- about $2,600 in today's dollars.

It is quite likely that this all happened later in the year, and the phonograph went through some prototyping, testing, and tinkering before Edison applied for a patent on Dec. 24, 1877.