Some of Thomas Edison's inventions included: The phonograph, the very first machine that could capture and play back sound. The stencil-pen, a writing instrument powered by electricity and that is ...

Art Gillham’s session made history. The technology changed who was heard in recordings, how artists approach their music and ...

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) invented the tin foil phonograph – a machine that recorded sound by indenting a sheet of tin foil into a groove in a cylinder. A later wax version was ...

In 1877, he used his phonograph machine to record ... of tests so that he wouldn’t risk offending Edison. Thomas Jr. dreamed of his invention being installed in every car in the nation.

From Thomas Edison to the Ice Cream Cone” will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 25 at the Shady Rest Golf & Country Club’s ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of ... communication through the telegraph and telephone led to his first major invention: the phonograph. After investigating acoustic ...