Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the ...

Once the basic principle of the phonograph was discovered, the years of arduous work on its development by Edison and others dealt largely with the composition and handling of materials for ...

While Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877 marked the dawn of recorded sound, it was Emile Berliner’s lateral-cut disc record in 1887 that paved the way for the modern vinyl ...

It was recorded in 1888, 10 years after Edison had first done the tinfoil phonograph ... human beings have these cylinders that they can record, and so they start going out and recording all ...

The barn that serves as his office is packed with hard drive copies of Lomax’s records and thousands of his own vinyls — including old phonograph albums he has collected over time of Yiddish ...

Established in 1908 by Juliusz Feigenbaum, Syrena Record – Poland’s first and most charming ... resourceful mind behind him – found a match in the phonograph’s inventor, Thomas Edison. With the ...

On December 7, 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph at the New York City offices of the nation's leading technical weekly publication, Scientific American. The following report set off ...

An earlier term in the U.S. for an analog audio disc (a "vinyl record"). In other countries, the term was "gramophone record." See LP and turntable. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

a good 20 years before Thomas Edison created his phonograph. Thomas Edison is often credited with being the first person to record sound. But it was in fact a Frenchman named Edouard-Léon Scott ...

In celebration of the album’s arrival, more than 100 independent record stores in 35 states across the U.S. will host special release parties. The listening events will take place on either ...