Thomas Edison invented the phonograph on August 12, 1877. It "will undoubtedly be liberally devoted to music," Edison predicted with stunning accuracy in 1878.

Thomas Edison is best known for the light bulb and the phonograph, but some fun facts about Thomas Edison reveal inventions like the electric pen and the talking doll—creations that showcase his ...

A photograph of a young Thomas Edison with an early version of the phonograph. | Library of Congress When Thomas Edison was 7 years old, his family relocated to Port Huron, Michigan.

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 little tune my hearing ...

There's no known old black-and-white photo of Edison chomping this piano to prove it. ... 1948, among early phonographs in Thomas Edison's laboratory in West Orange, N.J., Jan. 27, 1948.

But Edison’s early phonograph both recorded and reproduced sound. “This was so astounding,” one historian wrote, “that the phonograph singularly established Edison’s international ...

The defects of the early phonograph were so great that Edison found it impossible to interest capitalists in perfecting it. It reproduced singing and whistling with wonderful accuracy, but as a ...

Rare Thomas Edison films capture Chicago’s early days. By Robin Amer Robin Amer ...

This example of an Edison talking doll has a ceramic head, a metal body, and articulated limbs made from painted wood. Inside the torso is mounted a tiny phonograph bearing a brown wax record that ...