Thomas Edison and his team of engineers managed to imprint sound waves in a strip of tinfoil. And you spoke - well, you really had to shout into a mouthpiece, and it could record sound and play it ...

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 is often credited with being the first person to record sound. But it was in fact a Frenchman named Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville who invented sound recording via his ...

The novelty of special effects is likely why Thomas Edison signed on for the project ... is almost just as exciting as its record. Mary Stuart has had a much more recent film depiction, in ...

Ten buildings in legendary inventor Thomas Edison's plant ... The flames had consumed years of priceless records and prototypes, and his plant's insurance only covered about a third of the ...

Music journalist Jonathan Scott explores the early history of recorded sound: from the first-known recordings in the 1800s to the most significant vinyl records of the 1940s.