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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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