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

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.

Chemical developments originating from the West Orange laboratory included plastics and waxes for disc and cylinder phonograph records, nickel-iron alkaline electric storage batteries, and ...

Thomas Edison was the king of invention ... similar to how a human voice can be amplified and recorded by a phonograph. Edison wrote plans and theories for this ghost machine, but it is unclear ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s not an accident that the Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys all have names typically used for people (though they’re not all named ...

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 ...