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 ...

Scott says that while Thomas Edison ... cylinders, and it worked much, much better than the tinfoil. In the late 1880s and early 1890s is really when the music industry starts to kick off because, ...

Scott says that while Thomas Edison is often credited with inventing ... human beings have these cylinders that they can record, and so they start going out and recording all kinds of interesting ...