On December 7, 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph at the New York City offices of the nation's leading technical weekly publication, Scientific American. The following report set off ...

Edison was one of the first to grasp the importance of chemical knowledge when conducting industrial research and development. There was more chemical knowhow employed in the development of the ...

I remember the moment I got interested in music. I was 10 years old, sitting in a friend’s attic in our eastside Dayton ...

Country being one of America's most foundational musical art forms, its earliest recording throws many of the genre's narratives and perception into question.

The bad boy (man?) of inventing is back! And he's going to sing all about the inventions that he totally "invented".

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) invented the tin foil phonograph – a machine that recorded sound by indenting a sheet of tin foil into a groove in a cylinder. A later wax version was ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...

The Edison Phonograph and Kinetoscope Parlor was there from 1890 until 1902. Today, the vision for the area is to be an entertainment focal point that people will flock to. Read more: These Are ...