(WHSV) - Almost 150 years ago on Feb. 19, 1878, Thomas Edison patented the phonograph.

Larry Sprinkle tells us about how the first patent for a phonograph was granted to Thomas Edison on Feb. 19, 1878.

February 19 holds historical significance. It marks the birth of Copernicus and Shivaji Maharaj. The date saw the Donner Party rescue and Edison's phonograph patent. Kansas banned alcohol. US interned ...

February 19 marks significant US historical events. In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered Japanese-American internment. The Donner Party was rescued in 1847 after being snowbound. Thomas Edison ...

This novelty music format probably will vanish like many before it. The idea of forsaking CD for vinyl involved supposedly better sound from 12-inch vinyl and the glorious artwork enabled ...

Player pianos, microphones, jukeboxes and other innovations that had major cultural repercussions.

In David Thomson’s Biographical Dictionary of Film (Knopf 1994), Thomas Edison is a “grinch” who “always seemed grim, suspicious, and costive…. There’s an eerie contradiction between his own ...

It's an iconic shape, but why does it look like that?

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and collaborative. John Logie Baird with his transmitting station on March 19, ...

Civilisations name their ages after materials. In school, we learn about the Stone Age, the Bronze Age – and we are currently in a silicon age characterised by computers and phones. What might define ...

While working as an engineer at Tesla, Niccolo Cymbalist never planned to start a business. But he’d been considering an idea for new technology—an autonomous, wind-powered cargo ship. Then, while on ...