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 ...

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history ... Edison’s first improvement to the phonograph after the original tinfoil record was the development of wax cylinders into which ...

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 ...

Bell demonstrated his telephone and Thomas Edison his phonograph at the Smithsonian Castle Building ... Archives - History Div Joseph Henry Advises Alexander Graham Bell on Development of Telephone ...

From Thomas Edison’s groundbreaking work developing the lightbulb and phonograph to the invention ... role in shaping modern life through the development of new products and technologies.