Prior to Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877, the world had no means of recording the human voice; and the enjoyment of prerecorded music was limited to the player piano. Edison was ...
This anthology assembles primary documents chronicling the development of the phonograph, talking pictures, and the radio. These three sound technologies shaped Americans' relation to music from the ...
Ruble Sanderson owns phonographs, record players and other sound machines dating back to the 1880s. Sanderson turns 90 in January and has owned several honky tonks on Lower Broadway including Legend's ...
Today, it is hard to imagine a world without recorded audio, and for the most part that started with Edison’s invention of the phonograph. However, for most of its history, the phonograph was a ...
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