Thomas Edison wasn't the first person to record sound. A Frenchman named Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville actually did it earlier. He invented a device called the phonautograph, and, on April 9 ...

Recording originally made on a phonograph in St. Louis in 1878 It opens with a 23-second cornet solo Made on a sheet of tinfoil placed on cylinder of Edison phonograph SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP ...

It was recorded in 1888, 10 years after Edison had first done the tinfoil phonograph, by then recording on hard wax ... He recorded three sessions in 1902, and they were an absolute sensation.

The recording was originally made on a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878. At a time when music lovers can carry thousands of digital songs on a player the size of a pack of ...

The recording was originally made on a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878. At a time when music lovers can carry thousands of digital songs on a player the size of a pack of ...

Meadowcroft, at the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, N.J. A tag tied to the cylinder phonograph record reads: "Tin Phonograph Cylinder [...]l Record." Edison modified his idea for talking 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 ...

On 14 August 1888, a recording of British composer Arthur Sullivan’s song ‘The Lost Chord’ was etched onto a phonograph cylinder. The phonograph had been made by American inventor Thomas Edison, who ...