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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

I remember the moment I got interested in music. I was 10 years old, sitting in a friend’s attic in our eastside Dayton ...