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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

He wanted to have it framed. Such use of the recorder was actually in compliance with Thomas Alvy Edison’s wish to use the phonograph to create ‘a family album’. It would include fragments of speeches ...

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