Prices had come down to as low as $7.50, about $150 in today’s dollars, for a machine called the “Gem,” which debuted in 1899. The Edison phonograph in the collection of the Sauk County ...

But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, which was how the original Edison phonograph worked. [Our Own Devices] did a video earlier showing one of these devices ...

THE marvellous results attained by Mr. Edison's recent improvement on, or, more properly perhaps, resurrection of, the original phonograph of 1878 have induced us to present a view of the latest ...

Edison would be even more astounded if he could come back and take a look at what has happened to his invention over the last century. That first phonograph was barely capable of reproducing the ...

THE present state of perfection of the Edison phonograph led me to attempt some experiments with it on our New England Indians, as a means of preserving languages which are rapidly becoming extinct.

That changed in 1877 when Thomas Edison unveiled his phonograph. It wasn’t the first such device to record and play back audio, but it was the first generally reliable one: scratchy and nearly ...

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 ...

The recording was originally made on a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878. At a time when music lovers can carry thousands of digital songs on a player the size of a pack of ...