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.

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.

The Nation Magazine. 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.

In 1887 Edison had licensed W. W. Jacques and Lowell C. Briggs of Boston to make and sell talking dolls as the Edison Toy Phonograph Company. The Edison Phonograph Works, in West Orange, N.J., ...

A. Yours is an Edison Model W-19 Diamond Disc console record player. A hand-cranked, nonelectric player, the top flips up to reveal the turntable and there are record storage cabinets on either side.

Embedded in each doll's tin torso was a miniaturized model of Thomas Edison's phonograph, its conical horn trained toward a series of perforations in the doll's chest.

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.