Just the other day, I heard one of the earliest popular recorded sambas, Donga’s “Pelo Telefone,” from 1916 and released on an Edison talking record, probably a wax cylinder. A few years later the ...

In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the first device to ever record and play back sound. Speaking into a mouthpiece caused a metal stylus attached to a diaphragm to move up and down. The stylus made ...

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 ...

Almost 145 years have elapsed since Edison’s Phonograph was patented, and we decided to look back at some of the turntables that had the most significance. While listening to a record the other day ...

These 10 technological marvels had cultural implications that its inventors could barely have imagined.

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(WHSV) - Almost 150 years ago on Feb. 19, 1878, Thomas Edison patented the phonograph.