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 ...

I remember the moment I got interested in music. I was 10 years old, sitting in a friend’s attic in our eastside Dayton ...

Before Halloween, the National Park Service posted a Facebook photo of the doll, on display at Thomas Edison National Historical ... 1890 after he invented the phonograph. It has a mini phonograph ...

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 ...