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.

But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, which was how the original Edison phonograph worked ... and playback audio on tin foil wrapped around a drum.

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 ...

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 ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...