Music history loves its legends. We hear about Elvis, The Beatles, and rock icons who supposedly invented entire genres. Yet ...

Thomas Edison is often credited with recording the first human sound. In reality, that achievement belongs to a French ...

December 24, 1877. Thomas Edison files a patent for the first phonograph capable of recording and playing sound. The groundbreaking product was a byproduct of Edison’s work to improve the telegraph ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On November 29, 1877, young Thomas Edison tested his newest invention the phonograph. It was the first time anyone had recorded sound and played it back. He had given a sketch of ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - On this day in 1877, a scientific journal unveiled a groundbreaking invention that would forever change the world of sound: Thomas Edison’s phonograph. This revolutionary device ...

The following is an article from history.com: “November of 1877, the publication Scientific American enthuses about Thomas Edison‘s new invention: the phonograph, a way to record and play back sound.

THE fertility of Mr. Edison's inventive genius has frequently been referred to recently, though the attractive and popular nature of the phonograph has had the effect of throwing some almost equally ...

Thinking back to the technology that was around 50 years ago, it’s remarkable how many inventions and innovations have changed the world (and the way we navigate our way through it). Some inventions, ...

Lewis Howard Latimer worked for Thomas Edison and drew patent diagrams for Alexander Graham Bell. A museum in Queens displays his work. By James Barron The Queens home of the Black inventor who ...

Phonograph Inventor Thomas Alva Edison has a lot to answer for—as the most casual record-shop browser can testify. Sir Arthur Sullivan once declared: “I am terrified at the thought that so much ...