In 1877, he used his phonograph ... that the younger Edison had invented a better light bulb. (He had not.) The publicity led ...

If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger.

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 ...

Once the basic principle of the phonograph was discovered, the years of arduous work on its development by Edison and others dealt largely with the composition and handling of materials for ...

When Mrs. Elizabeth Naidi Hetman of Sandisfield came to America from Russia just before World War I, she worked for Thomas Alva Edison at his ...

In 1877, after Edison invented the phonograph, Johnson took the machine on tour, charging crowds to drum up excitement. When Edison patented the light bulb in 1880, its exact value was hard to ...

April 12 through May 24, the work of artist Blake Edison will be on display in “The Colors on My Mind” exhibition at Union South on the University of Wisconsin campus. Edison works in association with ...

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 ...