If you've only ever built Lego sets, it's worth noting Pantasy's bricks are fully compatible with Lego. This is common with non-Lego building sets, including Mega Bloks, Jazware's BLDR, and Brick Shop ...

Ruble Sanderson owns phonographs, record players and other sound machines dating back to the 1880s. Sanderson turns 90 in January and has owned several honky tonks on Lower Broadway including Legend's ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This example of an Edison talking ...

When Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, he gave the world its first device that could both record and replay sound. A vibrating diaphragm pressed a stylus into soft wax, carving microscopic ...

In 1889, a San Francisco tavern called the Palais Royale debuted a hot new attraction: a modified Edison phonograph that, when a customer inserted a nickel, played music from a single wax cylinder.

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Editor's note: This story has been updated to note when book donations will resume at the Book ReSort. Also, there's an addition of the name of a fifth local author who will be signing her book at the ...

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If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in ...

As music fans around the country celebrate Record Store Day, which started in 2008, Albert Menashe shares a look at his records and record players going back over 100 years. Albert Menashe sits in one ...

Writer’s Note: We are currently working on an estate sale in Statham’s Landing that has a beautiful Edison Gramophone with many cylinder “records.” In the interest of the leaps in technology, I had ...