I’m not sure if the phonograph was Edison’s most important invention: he was also the co-inventor of the electric light bulb (Joseph Swan came up with it at the same time, and they eventually ...

April 22, 2009; Edison’s Phonograph Edison’s Phonograph The quiet breakfast could end up being a thing of the past if the rumors about Edison inventing a phonograph are true.

We're used to sound recordings. Music (in multiple genres), audiobooks, phone messages, recordings of family history, alert boops and beeps on our phones...even the happy little tune my hearing ...

Thomas Edison invented the phonograph on August 12, 1877. It "will undoubtedly be liberally devoted to music," Edison predicted with stunning accuracy in 1878.

The Edison phonograph in the collection of the Sauk County Historical Society is a model C, built around 1908 and at the time, retailed for $35, or about $700 in today’s dollars.

Edison Phonograph Plays The Cylinders. 9 Comments . by: Al Williams. May 8, 2025. Title: ... The Edison Blue Amberol records came out in 1912 and were far superior to the earlier wax cylinders.

In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the first device to ever record and play back sound. Speaking into a mouthpiece caused a metal stylus attached to a diaphragm to move up and down. The stylus made ...

THE marvellous results attained by Mr. Edison's recent improvement on, or, more properly perhaps, resurrection of, the original phonograph of 1878 have induced us to present a view of the latest ...

This is a stock certificate for 50 shares of the Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Company, for Mary A. Harris and dated June 14, 1887. Printed by the American Banknote Company, New York, the ...

Aug. 12, 1877, is the date popularly given for Thomas Alva Edison’s completion of the model for the first phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders.

It sounds primitive today, but a century ago Thomas A. Edison’s cylinder phonograph was close to the state of the art. The Niagara County Historical Society received a good-as-new 1906 ...