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 ...

His invention of the Edison Standard Phonograph brought music into the homes of countless Americans, and one of his early cylinder machines will occasionally turn up in galleries like ours.

Edison's cylinder phonograph was close to the state of the art. The Niagara County Historical Society received a good-as-new 1906 Edison New Standard Phonograph from a Lewiston couple last month ...

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 ...

Today we celebrate Thomas Edison. It is not his birthday but the 127 th anniversary of Edison announcing his first recording invention, the phonograph ... has become a standard best practice ...

Edison wasn't satisfied with his initial branding -- and came up with 50 alternatives -- but the name ended up sticking. When Thomas Edison sketched out a machine that could record sound onto ...

Prior to Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877, the world had no means of recording the human voice; and the enjoyment of prerecorded music was limited to the player piano.