The first sound recording is often credited to Thomas Edison, but in 1857, a typographer named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville actually beat him by inventing the phonautograph, a device ...

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 ...

He continued to work into his eighties, and acquired a record 1,093 patents in his lifetime. He died in West Orange on October 18, 1931. For Thomas Edison, Electricity was his passion. At age 29, he ...

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 ...

YAWATA, Kyoto Prefecture--Iwashimizu Hachimangu shrine here is a government-designated national treasure, but it is also home to a relatively unknown monument dedicated to Thomas Edison (1847-1931).

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. This news story is funded ...