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 ...

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 ...

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).