Years before radios and televisions were the source of entertainment in most living rooms across the country, families gathered around non-electric, crank-wound gramophones and phonographs to enjoy ...

Inventor Thomas Edison invented incandescent light bulbs and activity photographs,gramophoneHas been improved to succeed in practical use. In order to make the gramophone's performance known to the ...

The Chocolate Record Player (1902), a Stollwerck gramophone, was a novelty toy designed to play chocolate discs. Stollwerck had been founded in Germany in 1839, and by the end of the century it was ...

These 10 technological marvels had cultural implications that its inventors could barely have imagined.

DENVER — Whenever Gary Stone receives a delivery at his Denver home, history usually arrives. "From a historical perspective, the radios, the TVs, the phonographs, all are just so fascinating to me ...

After more than a century, gramophones, phonographs, and cylinder players are prized as collectibles—and music machines. George F. Paul has never forgotten the delight he felt when he encountered his ...

Thomas Alva Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park whose genius ushered in a new era of light and sound for humankind, invented the phonograph at his New Jersey laboratory on this day in history, Aug. 12, ...

Surrounded by devices including an Edison gramophone-style phonograph, foreground, Daisuke Shimozono is seen at home in the Tokyo suburban city of Machida. (Mainichi) Machida resident Daisuke ...

While still relatively uncommon, it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine two Stittsville teens collecting vinyl records — it's a trendy medium that's been eating up more and more of the music market in ...

GANGNEUNG ― Gyeongpodae on the East Coast is widely known as a sandy beachside resort area for many vacationers. But a ten-minute walk away from the beach, there is quite a different spot to grab ...