"The phonograph will undoubtedly be liberally ... "The object of this invention is to record in permanent characters the human voice and other sounds … [to] be reproduced and rendered audible ...

Those who have heard the phonograph "talk" know how thin its tone is and how feeble its voice. As a matter of fact, less than 30 percent. of the original volume of sound is returned to the ear.

While he did create the working phonograph — his self-identified most important invention — the original invention wasn’t commercially viable. You could record and playback audio on tin foil ...

“The three-minute pop song is basically an invention of the phonograph,” says Mark Katz, a professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of Capturing ...

where the first phonograph was for months on exhibition, very few were found to hope much for the invention. It was apparently a toy of no practical value; its talking was more or less of a ...

Say what you will about [Thomas Edison], but it’s hard to deny the genius of his self-proclaimed personal favorite invention: the phonograph. Capturing sound as physical patterns on a malleable ...

IN experimenting lately with the phonograph it occurred to me to try whether, after a series of musical or articulate sounds have been recorded, other series could successively be superimposed on ...

From Thomas Edison’s groundbreaking work developing the lightbulb and phonograph to the invention of the ice cream cone, the state has been at the forefront of technological and culinary ...