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 ...

Thomas Alva Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park whose genius ushered in a new era of light and sound for humankind, invented the phonograph at his New Jersey laboratory on this day in history, Aug. 12, ...

MENLO PARK, N.J. (WHTM) — We’re used to sound recordings. Music (in multiple genres), audiobooks, phone messages, recordings of family history, alert boops and beeps on our phones…even the happy ...

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 ...

When Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, he gave the world its first device that could both record and replay sound. A vibrating diaphragm pressed a stylus into soft wax, carving microscopic ...

While Heinrich Beck was beginning his brewing business in Germany in the late 1800’s, Thomas Edison was across the Atlantic Ocean working on his phonograph. Now, over a hundred years later, the Beck ...

To promote its new record label, Beck’s took inspiration from Thomas Edison’s phonograph—a precursor to the record player that used wax cylinders instead of vinyl discs—to create what it’s claiming is ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is an experimental sound ...

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. -- Hard of hearing, Thomas Edison found a unique way to appreciate piano music. As someone played, the great inventor would lean in close to the instrument, right above the keys, and ...

Edison’s phonograph embodied the logic of constraint and memory: once the groove was cut, the surface could not easily be remade. Similarly, early experiences—especially those charged with emotion or ...