If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger.

On December 7, 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph at the New York City ... report set off a stampede of reporters to Edison's laboratory to hear the amazing device.

Eccentric Edison sleeps fully clothed on his laboratory floor ... Only a year after licensing the pen, Edison produced the phonograph and became world famous. Two years after, he gave the world ...

Chemical developments originating from the West Orange laboratory included plastics and waxes for disc and cylinder phonograph records, nickel-iron alkaline electric storage batteries, and ...

Edison, an Ohio native who moved to West Orange, NJ, in 1886 and whose legendary lab and residence are preserved ... doll in 1890 after he invented the phonograph. It has a mini phonograph ...

That changed in 1877 when Thomas Edison unveiled his phonograph. It wasn’t the first such device to record and play back audio, but it was the first generally reliable one: scratchy and nearly ...

On New Year's Eve, 1879, Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention: the electric light. Reporters came from all over the U.S. to see Edison's Menlo Park lab lit up with his incandescent bulbs.

In 1877, he used his phonograph machine to record ... that would wire homes to power grids. From his laboratory in West ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph ... and Ford themselves), a research laboratory and a museum with hundreds of ...