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

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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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - December 24, 1877. Thomas Edison files a patent for the first phonograph capable of recording and playing sound. The groundbreaking product was a byproduct of Edison’s work ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a stock certificate for 50 ...

Ruble Sanderson owns phonographs, record players and other sound machines dating back to the 1880s. Sanderson turns 90 in January and has owned several honky tonks on Lower Broadway including Legend's ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - On this day in 1877, a scientific journal unveiled a groundbreaking invention that would forever change the world of sound: Thomas Edison’s phonograph. This revolutionary device ...

The following is an article from history.com: “November of 1877, the publication Scientific American enthuses about Thomas Edison‘s new invention: the phonograph, a way to record and play back sound.

In 1877, inventor Thomas Edison introduced the phonograph. An amazing contraption, it had the ability to record sound and play it back via complicated etchings made on foil-wrapped cylinders. In 1892, ...