Years before radios and televisions were the source of entertainment in most living rooms across the country, families gathered around non-electric, crank-wound gramophones and phonographs to enjoy ...

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

Seven years ago the U. S. phonograph and record industry was so sick its own backers almost gave it up for dead. Today, it is not only up and around again; it has fattened into one of the fastest ...

As even Brad Paisley has pointed out, we live today in something like the future. The past few years of continuously shrinking computers and continuously growing cities seem to suggest that he might ...

In 1889, a San Francisco tavern called the Palais Royale debuted a hot new attraction: a modified Edison phonograph that, when a customer inserted a nickel, played music from a single wax cylinder.

No. 1 distributor of phonograph music is the humble jukebox, which absorbs some 44% of the output of U. S. popular records, plays them at a nickel a throw in bars, dance dives and lunch counters ...

The popular furniture company IKEA is once again branching out into new product categories after announcing that it will launch a record player in line with its new Obegränsad collection. The logo of ...