The designers concocted the Edison bottle, a simple glass beer bottle inscribed with music that can be played like a 19th-century phonograph cylinder. Shine's design team came up with the idea ...

The setup of the Menlo Park laboratory was especially suitable for invention and product development, and Edison’s lab was considered a model for modern research ... plastics and waxes for disc and ...

Thomas Edison National Historical Park managed to obtain one of these talking dolls, but the cylinder was ... that creates a digital model of the surface of a phonograph, such as the phonograph ...

Yours is an Edison Model W-19 Diamond Disc console ... Here's a quick history of Edison in the retail record and phonograph business. He invented the cylinder recorder/player and marketed records ...

The oldest model in his collection, the Edison Suitcase Home Phonograph ... Walters collects phonograph-related memorabilia, in the form of cylinder records, which were also manufactured by ...

But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, which was how the original Edison phonograph worked. [Our Own Devices] did a video earlier showing one of these devices ...

The phonograph recorded and reproduced audible sounds first using paraffin paper and then metallic foil on a cylinder. Edison created multiple versions over the years, improving on each model.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Lionel Mapleson, then the librarian at New York's Metropolitan Opera, did something new: He took an Edison "Home" model phonograph and recorded operas with an ...

The 5-inch by 15-inch strip of tinfoil was scored with a series of dots by a stylus on a rotating cylinder ... public sales demonstration of Edison's recording phonograph device in St. Louis ...