Object Details Description 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 ...

Within a few short years, the cylinder phonograph was obsolete. Edison went on to achieve remarkable things in other fields, including such diverse categories as ore milling and motion pictures.

Object Details Description 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 ...

[Jan Derogee] pulled out his phonograph the other day to hear the 100+ year old wax cylinder warble of “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary”, but couldn’t locate the reproducer &#8… ...

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.

Thanks to Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph, we can enjoy music history denied to past generations. Edison patented the phonograph – just one of his countless inventions – on February 19, ...

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

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 ...

Peterson’s foyer holds a selectable multi-cylinder phonograph--a precursor to the jukebox--built between 1905 and 1908. Another machine was designed to play 12 records, one after another.