To operate his phonograph, Edison wrapped a sheet of tinfoil around the cylinder and set the needle so that it would etch a spiral groove into the foil as the crank was turned.

You might be old enough to remember record platters, but you probably aren’t old enough to remember when records were cylinders. The Edison Blue Amberol records came out in 1912 and were far … ...

The designers concocted the Edison bottle, a simple glass beer bottle inscribed with music that can be played like a 19th-century phonograph cylinder. SUBSCRIBE LOG IN ...

Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in the small town of Milan, Ohio. Throughout his lifetime, he earned 1,093 patents, and became the driving force behind some of the most important ...

Historical impersonator Peter Small will portray Thomas Edison — inventor of the phonograph, motion picture camera and light bulb — in two performances Nov. 19-20, in Chagrin Falls and Beachwood.

It's scratchy, lasts only 78 seconds and features the world's first recorded blooper. The recording was originally made on a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878.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.