But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, which was how the original Edison phonograph worked. [Our Own Devices] did a video earlier showing one of these devices ...

Thomas Alva Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park whose genius ushered in a new era of light and sound for humankind, invented the phonograph at his New Jersey laboratory on this day in history ...

The National Museum of American History’s new permanent exhibit, “America’s Listening,” transports visitors back to the 1800s, when Thomas Edison unveiled the phonograph and kick-started ...

Among his thousands of inventions, Edison patented his phonograph, the device that allowed people to record and play sounds. “Thomas Alva Edison was one of the most accomplished inventors in ...

That changed in 1877 when Thomas Edison unveiled his phonograph. It wasn’t the first such device to record and play back audio, but it was the first generally reliable one: scratchy and nearly ...

Sponsor Message Fabris says Edison was, for the first time, trying to market the then-brand-new wax cylinder phonograph for people to use at home, and he thought the best vehicle would be a doll.

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 ...

It is not his birthday but the 127 th anniversary of Edison announcing his first recording invention, the phonograph. According to This Day in History “Edison stumbled on one of his great ...

“When I was 6 years old I saw a picture of a phonograph and I liked it. My grandma, who lived with us, had one. When she died, I lobbied for her Edison Amberola 30 phonograph,” Walters said.