In the 1870s, Heinrich Beck founded what would eventually become Beck's Brewery. At about the same time, Thomas Edison was hard at work on creating the first phonograph. It's a safe bet neither man ...

WEST ORANGE — Sheltered from the summer sun by the red and white tarp of a carnival tent, Jerry Fabris set his ancient machines spinning. Musicians jostled for position around him, pointing horns at a ...

LENOX -- A little black machine that recorded a speech by President Theodore Roose velt a century ago will bring the gilded age of invention to life at Ventfort Hall, in a talk by Wally Stock at 4 p.m ...

Thomas Edison was America's premier inventor of new technologies. He was a genius at the work. His nearly 1,100 U.S. patents include the electric light, motion picture camera, film projector, electric ...

Tonight, we meet two collectors, one from Manchester who stockpiles cookie cutters, and another from Rumney with a world-class collection of working Edison cylinder phonographs that date back to the ...