I had missed that voice more than I knew. Being able to hear him again — young him, even if he wasn't talking to me, or talking about anything I much cared about, felt to me, as it had to Lionel in ...

The Grammy Awards say Billings and his crew in Ridgway, Colorado, handmake each trophy (roughly 600 to 800 are needed ...

An iconic image of a globally recognised entertainment trademark has been unveiled at a museum. A painting of His Master’s Voice, known more widely as the “HMV dog” and showing a small terrier ...

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 ...

If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger. But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, ...

Chris Hunter, MiSci's acting President and VP of Collections, holds one of the earliest, mass-produced RCA radios during a tour of Schenectady's Museum of Science and Innovation vaults. Thomas ...

Because you can find just about any kind of content on the web, there’s a TikTok channel that’s almost entirely devoted to wax phonograph cylinders and the devices that play them. One process for ...

Good news obsolete technology fans, the first cylinder music release in nearly a century is out today, although even its creator acknowledges that 99.9% of those who buy it won’t be able to play it.

The name Edison is well known to all of us here in the Coachella Valley. As the region's largest utility, we see their trucks, use their power, and pay their bills. However, it's easy to forget the ...

Tonight, we meet two collectors, one from Manchester who stockpiles cookie cutters, and another from Rumney with a world-class collection of working Edison cylinder phonographs that date back to the ...

Savvy aficionados Mark Stacey and Paul Laidlaw face off from Lancashire to Somerset. It’s the start of a new road trip as savvy antiques aficionados Mark Stacey and Paul Laidlaw pit their expertise ...