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 ...
On December 7, 1877, Edison conducted the first demonstration of the machine before journalists in New York. Their reception was enthusiastic, and news of Edison’s “speaking phonograph” was widely ...
Photograph by daisuke miyagi In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, becoming the first person ever to record and reproduce his own voice. In 1895, the Edison Company created one of the ...
SCOTT: His part in the story starts in 1877. Thomas Edison and his ... It was recorded in 1888, 10 years after Edison had first done the tinfoil phonograph, by then recording on hard wax cylinders ...
Nov. 29 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1877, Thomas Edison demonstrated a hand-cranked phonograph that recorded sound on grooved metal cylinders. Edison shouted verses of "Mary Had a Little ...
Music journalist Jonathan Scott explores the early history of recorded sound: from the first-known recordings in the 1800s to the most significant vinyl records of the 1940s.