1860 'Phonautograph' Is Earliest Known Recording Audio historians have found a sound recording that predates Edison's phonograph by nearly 20 years. The "phonautograph" was patented in 1857 by ...

One of Thomas Edison's earliest ideas for his phonograph involved recording the audio for talking dolls on a ring-shaped cylinder. You know, for kids. Now researchers have digitally resurrected ...

An 1879 tinfoil phonograph is displayed at the Museum of Innovation and Science, on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, in Schenectady, N.Y. Researchers have digitized what experts say is the oldest ...

Columbia Records, which in the late 1890s was known as the Columbia Phonograph Co. and released cylinders of music performed by various minstrel shows, often white men in blackface, remains a ...

His 2020 project on the early Southern California phonograph industry helped identify the first-ever commercial recording made in Los Angeles. More From the Los Angeles Times Hollywood Inc.

This is the earliest recording of music known to exist. In 1888 a recording of Arthur Sullivan's song 'The Lost Chord' was etched onto a phonograph cylinder. Sullivan was astounded at this new ...

Thomas Edison seated beside a phonograph in 1921. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (The original image is no longer available, please contact KCRW if you need ...

And fortunately for us today, we are still able to hear one of the earliest musical recordings. On 14 August 1888, a recording of British composer Arthur Sullivan’s song ‘The Lost Chord’ was etched ...