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 ...

Chemical developments originating from the West Orange laboratory included plastics and waxes for disc and cylinder phonograph records, nickel-iron alkaline electric storage batteries, and ...

Thomas Edison was the king of invention ... similar to how a human voice can be amplified and recorded by a phonograph. Edison wrote plans and theories for this ghost machine, but it is unclear ...

More than 1,000 patents for iconic inventions like the lightbulb, phonograph ... Be More Like Thomas Edison. So take a look around your workplace. What do you see? Serious faces?

Bell demonstrated his telephone and Thomas Edison his phonograph at the Smithsonian Castle Building during meetings of the newly formed National Academy of Sciences, headed by Smithsonian Secretary ...

Early detractors like Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, ridicule jazz, saying it sounds better played backwards. A Cincinnati home for expectant mothers wins an injunction to prevent ...

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Over the years, many things have been invented here in New Jersey. Of course, Thomas Edison comes to mind. Known as the ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...