The Edison Blue Amberol records came out in 1912 and were far superior to the earlier wax cylinders. If you had one today, how could you play it? Easy. Just build [Palingenesis’] record player.

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 ...

Thomas Edison patents the phonograph on this day. The machine, which Edison had developed the previous year, used needles to read tin cylinders. The first song recorded on the phonograph was "Mary Had ...

Thomas Edison had a hand in inventing revolutionary devices such as the movie camera, microphone, and phonograph. But none has been more famous than his improvements to the light bulb, which ...

This ingenious contraption, built by his mechanic, successfully played back Edison reciting “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” a groundbreaking achievement in sound technology. Stay in the know with our free ...

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 ...

News got about last week that Thomas Alva Edison had invented a phonograph record that will play 40 minutes. In West Orange, N. J., Mr. Edison verified the report. The record, which has 450 music ...

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 ...

Aug. 12, 1877, is the date popularly given for Thomas Alva Edison’s completion of the model for the first phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders.

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Edison's new laboratory and perfected phonograph at Orange, N.J., were thrown open to representatives of the press yesterday. The plant is purely for experimental purposes, and is one of the ...