The first phonograph used a stylus to carve grooves into tin foil wrapped around a cylinder. But Edison didn’t know if it would be able to play back those grooves as audible sound waves.

When Kruesi finished constructing the phonograph, Edison put on the tin foil and recorded Mary Had a Little Lamb: fitting, because his daughter Marion was nearly five and his eldest son was almost ...

It's scratchy, lasts only 78 seconds and features the world's first recorded blooper. The recording was originally made on a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878.

While he did create the working phonograph — his self-identified most important invention — the original invention wasn’t commercially viable. You could record and playback audio on tin foil ...

Specimen of Sound Vibrations on Tin Foil. Spoken by the Edison Phonograph." Edison sold two phonographs that month in St. Louis, to Thomas Mason and K.K. Eldred.

INTO THE GROOVE: The Story of Sound From Tin Foil to Vinyl. By Jonathan Scott. Bloomsbury Sigma. 320 pages. $28. The first musical records were created in 1877. They were cylindrical, composed of ...

Tinfoil was superseded by aluminum foil shortly after World War II. The term “tinfoil” is still used in some regions as a substitute for “aluminum foil,” but I have not heard it for decades.

And in 1877 and at the age of 30, Edison, with his tin-foil phonograph, broke that particular “sound barrier,” producing for the first time—ever—sound that had been recorded and then ...

There was one problem with that first Edison audio recording on the tin-foil phonograph, says Professor Rubery, author of The Untold Story of the Talking Book.

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) invented the tin foil phonograph – a machine that recorded sound by indenting a sheet of tin foil into a groove in a cylinder. A later wax version was ...

Here the aggregate impressions on the tin-foil produce, so to speak, ... IN experimenting lately with the phonograph it occurred to me to try whether, ...