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.

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 ...

phonograph, and movie camera. What worked 150 years ago works now. Clearly, the lab’s setup supercharged the creativity of Edison’s team. But all this was 150 years ago. Does the rowdiness and ...

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.

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 ...

This lab would provide Edison and his assistants with the ability to quickly ... combining the audio-recording technology of the phonograph with another major innovation from Edison and his employee ...

Some of Thomas Edison's inventions included: The phonograph, the very first machine ... and used the property as the site for his house and laboratory. It was there that, over the course of ...