Once the basic principle of the phonograph was discovered, the years of arduous work on its development by Edison and others dealt largely with the composition and handling of materials for ...

Any good tour begins with a published itinerary. In our case, to keep things manageable, I’m going to limit the discussion to the common types of cylinder record and Edison cylinder phonograph that an ...

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 ...

Edison himself later returned to the field, refining the phonograph with innovations such as mass production techniques and longer-playing Amberol cylinders. Despite facing competition from disc ...

Scott says that while Thomas Edison is often ... and it could record sound and play it back. And that was a sensation. The upshot, though, was that the tinfoil phonograph, though brilliant ...

Something similar could be (and, for all I know, may have been) done for Edison cylinder phonographs--they ran in families ... and an ingenious bearing system to correct for out-of-round records.

Scott says that while Thomas Edison is often credited with ... and it could record sound and play it back. And that was a sensation. The upshot, though, was that the tinfoil phonograph, though ...