A tour of the archives beneath Schenectady's Museum of Innovation and Science is a journey through America's history with ...

To his amazement, the machine played his words back. This was the very start of recorded sound in 1878. A patent was issued on the phonograph on February 19th, 1878; the invention was highly original.

Bootleg recordings and music piracy have been an issue a lot longer than most people realize. It can be all traced back to a ...

With a long and storied history of pioneering audio recording, we explore America's musical history and identify the earliest known recording of a US song.

Dan Coulter was 12 years old when he bought his first jukebox. The Bloomington kid wasn’t very good in academics but he liked ...

introducing improvements like wax cylinders. Edison himself later returned to the field, refining the phonograph with innovations such as mass production techniques and longer-playing Amberol ...

The researchers register their conversations, rituals, singing and music on 100 Edison wax cylinder phonographs. However, the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war in 1905 forces Piłsudski and ...

The National Museum of London has uncovered what it says is the first ever recording of a family ... The Wall family used a phonograph machine to put the audio of their special occasions on wax ...

Now, there is a move to protect the old home of Wax Trax! Records, and it came down to a vote Thursday in City Hall. The old Wax Trax! Records building is located at 2449 N. Lincoln Ave., ...