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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Photograph of Thomas Alva Edison's ...

If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger. But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - December 24, 1877. Thomas Edison files a patent for the first phonograph capable of recording and playing sound. The groundbreaking product was a byproduct of Edison’s work ...

Thomas Edison is often credited with recording the first human sound. In reality, that achievement belongs to a French inventor named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. His device captured sound ...

Demolition began Tuesday at fire-scarred Parade Park Homes, launching a $300 million redevelopment in the 18th and Vine District. A public meeting will be held tonight to discuss the city’s ...