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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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.

thomas edison, whose picture hangs prominently on the wall invented, the phonograph in 1877, it was the very first device ever created, allowing people to hear recorded sound and for roger, it’s ...

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 ...

This example of an Edison talking doll has a ceramic head, a metal body, and articulated limbs made from painted wood. Inside the torso is mounted a tiny phonograph bearing a brown wax record that ...