Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the ...

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of ... communication through the telegraph and telephone led to his first major invention: the phonograph. After investigating acoustic ...

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 ...

Thomas Edison was the king of invention. He developed many innovations ... similar to how a human voice can be amplified and recorded by a phonograph. Edison wrote plans and theories for this ...

The history goes back to 1935. William Maxson of West Orange developed the idea of freezing already cooked foods and then ...

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 ...

Working in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Edison gained fame through his various inventions, including the phonograph. His Kinetoscope, which showed moving images through a pinhole, was the forerunner to ...