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.

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 ...

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 ...

It was sold by the Thomas A. Edison Jr. Chemical Company, an outfit ostensibly owned by the son of famed inventor Thomas ...

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 ...