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 ...

With a long and storied history of pioneering audio recording, we explore America's musical history and identify the earliest known recording of a US song.

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history ... Edison’s work in transmitting communication through the telegraph and telephone led to his first major invention: the phonograph. After ...

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

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 ...

THOMAS ALVA EDISON was born in the then village of Milan ... America raised him to the status of a sort of national hero. His first triumph was achieved when as a boy of fifteen he set up ...