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 ...

Crafting the Classic: How a Phonograph Record Player is Made Posted: February 13, 2025 | Last updated: February 13, 2025 Step into the world of audio craftsmanship as we reveal the process behind ...

Photograph by daisuke miyagi In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, becoming the first person ever to record and reproduce his own voice. In 1895, the Edison Company created one of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alexander Graham Bell’s famous request to his assistant came on March 10, 1876, just days after his telephone patent was granted. Bell demonstrated his telephone and Thomas Edison his phonograph at ...

As the only registered antique phonograph museum owner in Texas, Mr. Cartwright is fully licensed to crank up one of his many Victrolas to let you "dance to a song that was a hit before your ...

The barn that serves as his office is packed with hard drive copies of Lomax’s records and thousands of his own vinyls — including old phonograph albums he has collected over time of Yiddish ...