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 ...

Edison was one of the first to grasp the importance of chemical knowledge when conducting industrial research and development. There was more chemical knowhow employed in the development of the ...

Edison is the embodiment of the method of specialised ... In quick succession came a series of innovations in telegraphy and telephony, the phonograph, photography, and in all that appertained ...

With a long and storied history of pioneering audio recording, we explore America's musical history and identify the earliest known recording of a US song.

Born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847, Edison's inventions, which included perfecting the light bulb and phonograph, radically transformed modern civilization and helped make the 20th century ...

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 ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...