The Edison and Ford Winter Estates are a home base for history buffs who visit ... the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile ...

Spin back to 1877 when Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, a device that played songs stamped ... Oh, but I was so needled ...

Early detractors like Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, ridicule jazz, saying it sounds better played backwards. A Cincinnati home for expectant mothers wins an injunction to prevent ...

It was recorded in 1888, 10 years after Edison had first done the tinfoil phonograph ... and would pay to have a voice like that in their home. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I'M GONNA WASH THAT MAN ...

and began our five-week journey. They travelled over 1,200 km and brought hundreds of recordings back home. Years later, they still vividly remembered this adventure: Wax cylinders, Edison's ...

The phonograph, or "talking machine," had been invented by Thomas Edison only few years before ... By the end of the '90s, they were selling them for home use, too. And George Johnson's two ...

Madeline Statton Oswald saw the 19th Amendment passed and danced through the Roaring Twenties. This is what Christmas was ...

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

“Our Frigidaire went bad,” but Potomac Edison promptly delivered a new one the next morning. The following December 1941, Madeline’s brother, Philo Statton, purchased the historic home ...

U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright urged the state Department of Health to investigate “strikingly high” rates of cancer, illness and ...