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 ...

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 ...

The Edison Phonograph and Kinetoscope Parlor was there from 1890 until 1902. Today, the vision for the area is to be an entertainment focal point that people will flock to. Read more: These Are ...

I remember the moment I got interested in music. I was 10 years old, sitting in a friend’s attic in our eastside Dayton neighborhood. His teenage brother played a 45 rpm single of Elvis Presley ...

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) invented the tin foil phonograph – a machine that recorded sound by indenting a sheet of tin foil into a groove in a cylinder. A later wax version was ...

“It’s got to be the top of the pyramid,” he said in an interview from his home studio in Cranford, N.J. Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, and the period until 1925 is known as ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...

The bad boy (man?) of inventing is back! And he's going to sing all about the inventions that he totally "invented".