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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bad boy (man?) of inventing is back! And he's going to sing all about the inventions that he totally "invented".

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Thomas Edison is often credited with being the first ... 20 years before Edison invented his phonograph. Video by Sanjana Bhambhani We explore how maple syrup can be a healthier alternative ...

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 ...

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 ...