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 ...

The Edison Disc Phonograph of 1911 paired the condensite record with a diamond stylus that Edison ... In 1927 he joined with Ford and Firestone to establish the Edison Botanic Research Corporation at ...

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 ...

The Edison and Ford Winter Estates are a home base for history buffs who visit ... the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile ...