Once the basic principle of the phonograph was discovered, the years of arduous work on its development by Edison and others dealt largely with the composition and handling of materials for ...

Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the ...

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 ...

It was recorded in 1888, 10 years after Edison had first done the tinfoil phonograph ... human beings have these cylinders that they can record, and so they start going out and recording all ...

Bell demonstrated his telephone and Thomas Edison his phonograph at the Smithsonian Castle Building during meetings of the newly formed National Academy of Sciences, headed by Smithsonian Secretary ...

While Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877 marked the dawn of recorded sound, it was Emile Berliner’s lateral-cut disc record in 1887 that paved the way for the modern vinyl ...

a good 20 years before Thomas Edison created his phonograph. Thomas Edison is often credited with being the first person to record sound. But it was in fact a Frenchman named Edouard-Léon Scott ...