Thomas Edison worked ... musical pieces than cylinders). We’ve recorded on magnetic tape and on CDs, and now we record sound on devices on which the only moving parts are the record and playback ...

To operate his phonograph, Edison wrapped a sheet of tinfoil around the cylinder and set the needle so that it would etch a spiral groove into the foil as the crank was turned. When the foil was ...

The recording was made on a sheet of tinfoil, 5 inches wide by 15 inches long, placed on the cylinder of the phonograph Edison invented in 1877 and began selling the following year. A hand crank ...

The designers concocted the Edison bottle, a simple glass beer bottle inscribed with music that can be played like a 19th-century phonograph cylinder. Shine's design team came up with the idea ...