Thomas Alva Edison may have invented the phonograph, but he’ll never be remembered as one of the great record executives. In the decades after he made his first wax cylinder (reciting “Mary Had a ...

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 ...

Wax cylinders that recorded sounds onto Edison phonographs have been too fragile to listen to until recently, and the New York Public Library hopes to give the country access to the mystery sounds ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UCSB sound archivist David Seubert holds two rare Edison wax cylinders. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times) Located in a wing of the ...

Before audio playlists, before cassette tapes and even before records, there were wax cylinders — the earliest, mass-produced way people could both listen to commercial music and record themselves. In ...

Could there be a generation of pocket iPhonographs on the horizon? The Audio Engineering Society (AES) recently hosted a recording session with Suzanne Vega at the Thomas Edison Museum, West Orange, N ...