If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger.

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history ... Edison’s first improvement to the phonograph after the original tinfoil record was the development of wax cylinders into which ...

But it’s certainly no more confusing than the upheaval that greeted a much older music technology: the phonograph ... since Edison first produced his scratchy recordings on tinfoil.

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 ...

He couldn’t possibly have imagined that in just 25 years, his ‘favourite invention’ would travel to India in its evolved ...

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) invented the tin foil phonograph – a machine that recorded sound by indenting a sheet of tin foil into a groove in a cylinder. A later wax version was ...

It was sold by the Thomas A ... In 1877, he used his phonograph machine to record “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on a piece of ...

In a way, of course, all this goes back to Thomas ... Edison recorded his voice by speaking into a mouthpiece. The sound waves vibrated a needle, which made indentations on tinfoil wrapped around ...