On Feb. 19, 1878, Thomas Edison patented the first gramophone.

Look: 130-Year-Old Kerosene Fan, Radio Designed In Braille Rare Items At Sharjah Festival . In a hall intriguingly titled 'Heard of It, Never Seen It,' visitors are coming face to face with objects th ...

An ongoing heat wave has knocked out power to thousands of Con Edison customers in the five boroughs over the past two days. As of 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, 3,521 customers in the city were without power, ...

Power outages stretched into a fourth day Thursday following a record-breaking heat wave that strained the city’s electrical grid. As of 3:40 p.m., more than 6,324 Con Edison customers remained ...