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

Just the other day, I heard one of the earliest popular recorded sambas, Donga’s “Pelo Telefone,” from 1916 and released on an Edison talking record, probably a wax cylinder. A few years later the ...

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

Phonograph Inventor Thomas Alva Edison has a lot to answer for—as the most casual record-shop browser can testify. Sir Arthur Sullivan once declared: “I am terrified at the thought that so much ...

In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the first device to ever record and play back sound. Speaking into a mouthpiece caused a metal stylus attached to a diaphragm to move up and down. The stylus made ...

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 ...

"An exhibition in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the invention of the phonograph." "Catalog coedited by Iris Bodin, and Randall S. Koladis ...