On December 7, 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph at the New York City offices of the nation's leading technical weekly publication, Scientific American. The following report set off ...

On December 7, 1877, Edison conducted the first demonstration of the machine before journalists in New York. Their reception was enthusiastic, and news of Edison’s “speaking phonograph” was widely ...

SCOTT: His part in the story starts in 1877. Thomas Edison and his ... It was recorded in 1888, 10 years after Edison had first done the tinfoil phonograph, by then recording on hard wax cylinders ...

Nov. 29 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1877, Thomas Edison demonstrated a hand-cranked phonograph that recorded sound on grooved metal cylinders. Edison shouted verses of "Mary Had a Little ...