Much of Edison’s later work on the phonograph focused on improvements to record design—a question of material science. Edison’s first improvement to the phonograph after the original tinfoil record ...

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 ...

Music journalist Jonathan Scott has written a book about the history of audio recording ... 10 years after Edison had first done the tinfoil phonograph, by then recording on hard wax cylinders ...

Photograph by daisuke miyagi In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, becoming the first person ever to record and reproduce his own voice. In 1895, the Edison Company created one of the ...

National Museum of American History Alexander Graham Bell Experimental ... on Development of Telephone Smithsonian Archives - History Div Thomas Edison Demonstrates Telephone and Phonograph to ...

The Edison and Ford Winter Estates are a home base for history buffs who visit the area ... the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the ...