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 ...

So when did Thomas Edison enter the picture ... human beings have these cylinders that they can record, and so they start going out and recording all kinds of interesting things and then trying ...

Invented in 1885, they replaced Thomas Edison's foil-wrapped metal cylinders. 1901 ... 1948: The first LP records, developed at the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Laboratories in 1948 ...