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 ...

That changed in 1877 when Thomas Edison unveiled his phonograph. It wasn’t the first such device to record and play back audio, but it was the first generally reliable one: scratchy and nearly ...

A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social ... created the doll in 1890 after he invented the phonograph. It has a mini phonograph mechanism inside its body ...

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

Chemical developments originating from the West Orange laboratory included plastics and waxes for disc and cylinder phonograph records, nickel-iron alkaline electric storage batteries, and ...

In a way, of course, all this goes back to Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph 80 years earlier. Back then, he thought he was inventing a playback dictaphone machine, which would make ...

But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, which was how the original Edison phonograph worked. [Our Own Devices] did a video earlier showing one of these devices ...

Bell demonstrated his telephone and Thomas Edison his phonograph at the Smithsonian Castle Building during meetings of the newly formed National Academy of Sciences, headed by Smithsonian Secretary ...

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 ...

In 1877, after Edison invented the phonograph, Johnson took the machine ... and “A Christmas Carol” in 1843. Thomas Nast’s drawings of jolly Santa Claus debuted in 1862.