Thomas Alva Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park whose genius ushered in a new era of light and sound for humankind, invented the phonograph at his New Jersey laboratory on this day in history, Aug. 12, ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - December 24, 1877. Thomas Edison files a patent for the first phonograph capable of recording and playing sound. The groundbreaking product was a byproduct of Edison’s work ...

Introduction: "Fugitive Sound Waves," Fugitive Voices -- The Talking Machine: A Marvelous Inevitability -- A Magic Speaking Object: Early Patterns of Response to the Phonograph -- Collectors and the ...

DENVER — Whenever Gary Stone receives a delivery at his Denver home, history usually arrives. "From a historical perspective, the radios, the TVs, the phonographs, all are just so fascinating to me ...

Talking tin foil -- Cylinders in business -- Entertainment for a nickel -- Emile Berliner's disc -- At home with the phonograph -- The improving gramophone -- Europe welcomes the talking machine -- A ...

November 24, 1888 - The introduction of the phonograph in Lincoln was reported in The Nebraska State Journal on November 24, 1888. A company was created to control its introduction in several states, ...

When Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, he gave the world its first device that could both record and replay sound. A vibrating diaphragm pressed a stylus into soft wax, carving microscopic ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - October 17, 1888. Thomas Edison files a patent for the optical phonograph, a device capable of recording and replaying sound for the first time, producing a moving picture.