In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) invented the tin foil phonograph – a machine that recorded sound by indenting a sheet of tin foil into a groove in a cylinder. A later wax version was ...

On December 7, 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph at the New York City offices of the nation's leading technical weekly publication, Scientific American. The following report set off ...

I remember the moment I got interested in music. I was 10 years old, sitting in a friend’s attic in our eastside Dayton ...

Country being one of America's most foundational musical art forms, its earliest recording throws many of the genre's narratives and perception into question.

But Edison’s early phonograph both recorded and reproduced ... which made indentations on tinfoil wrapped around a metal cylinder. Edison then played it back by repositioning the needle to ...