Edison Records was one of the early record labels that pioneered sound recording and reproduction, and was an important and successful company in the early recording industry. The first phonograph cylinders were manufactured in 1888, followed by Edison's foundation of the Edison Phonograph Company in the same year.

The Edison Phonograph Company was formed on October 8, 1887, to market Edison's machine. He introduced the Improved Phonograph by May of 1888, shortly followed by the Perfected Phonograph. The first wax cylinders Edison used were white and made of …

2022年2月28日 · WEST ORANGE, NJ – Thomas Edison National Historical Park (TENHP) announces the release of 2,400 historic Edison disc sound recordings, digitized and made available online in cooperation with the University of California, Santa Barbara Library Special Research Collections on their Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) website at ...

In the summer of 1929, the Edison company gave in to the popular trend and introduced the Edison Portable Disc Phonograph with New Edison Needle Records, offering both the Diamond Discs and the new needle records simultaneously.

The Edison Diamond Disc Record is a type of phonograph record marketed by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. on their Edison Record label from 1912 to 1929. They were named Diamond Discs because the matching Edison Disc Phonograph was fitted with …

Thomas Alva Edison invented his first tinfoil phonograph in 1877, but soon shifted his attention to other projects including the development of the incandescent bulb. Only following the 1887 exhibition of a Bell-Tainter graphophone by the nascent American Graphophone Company did Edison take a more active role in the fledgling industry.

2015年4月12日 · Thomas Edison made his first sound recordings on sheets of tinfoil at Menlo Park, New Jersey in 1877. At West Orange, New Jersey in 1888, he developed a solid wax cylinder record. During 1896-1897, Edison organized the National Phonograph Company and began mass-producing cylinder recordings of music and entertainment.

2020年5月11日 · Over 5,000 of these recordings from UCSB’s collection have been digitized and are available online to scholars and the public for free. Additional content from partner archives will be added in the coming months. Ten contextualizing essays for educators and the public have been added, with more in the works.

2024年7月31日 · Thomas Edison NHP's catalog records in NPS LIBRIS include MARC-format data for the 11,000 cylinder records and 39,000 disc records preserved at the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey. The majority of the phonograph records in the catalog are Edison recordings made between 1888 and 1929.

2022年2月28日 · The DAHR documents more than 14,000 Edison recording sessions that resulted in more than 8,000 published two-sided discs. With the digitized audio recordings from TENHP, the DAHR now has a total of more than 7,400 …