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 ...

From the invention of the phonograph in 1877 to the boom in streaming ... This Wall Street Journal brief history series helps explain the now, by looking back at how we got here.

An earlier term in the U.S. for an analog audio disc (a "vinyl record"). In other countries, the term was "gramophone record." See LP and turntable. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

This was the moment when the record industry went electric ... N.J. Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, and the period until 1925 is known as the acoustical era. A conical recording ...

Time for an update on the rarest and most unattainable record in the universe. These are the phonograph records attached to the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft which were launched in 1977. These are real ...