He couldn’t possibly have imagined that in just 25 years, his ‘favourite invention’ would travel to India in its evolved version as the gramophone and record raag Jogiya rendered by Gauhar Jaan, an ...

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 ...

To his astonishment, the device worked on the first attempt. On December 7, 1877, Edison conducted the first demonstration of the machine before journalists in New York. Their reception was ...

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 ...

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.

Edison was 30 when he patented his phonograph in 1877, but he wasn’t the first to record sound. That happened 20 years earlier, when French inventor Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created ...

Nov. 29 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1877, Thomas Edison demonstrated a hand-cranked phonograph that recorded sound on grooved metal cylinders. Edison shouted verses of "Mary Had a Little ...