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 ...

Chemical developments originating from the West Orange laboratory included plastics and waxes for disc and cylinder phonograph records, nickel-iron alkaline electric storage batteries, and ...

A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social ... created the doll in 1890 after he invented the phonograph. It has a mini phonograph mechanism inside its body ...

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 ...

I remember the moment I got interested in music. I was 10 years old, sitting in a friend’s attic in our eastside Dayton ...

It is Thomas Edison's electric pen ... Only a year after licensing the pen, Edison produced the phonograph and became world famous. Two years after, he gave the world light.

Bell demonstrated his telephone and Thomas Edison his phonograph at the Smithsonian Castle Building during meetings of the newly formed National Academy of Sciences, headed by Smithsonian Secretary ...

In reality, Thomas Edison Jr. had very little in common with ... In 1877, he used his phonograph machine to record “Mary Had ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...

In a way, of course, all this goes back to Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph 80 years earlier. Back then, he thought he was inventing a playback dictaphone machine, which would make ...