Thomas Edison ... the tin foil. When the cylinder was rewound to the beginning, the needle could then follow those marks which would replay the sound out through a horn. This was the Phonograph.

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.

It is Thomas ... Edison's elegant little pen was obsolete. But Edison now was dreaming of a machine that would reproduce human speech. Only a year after licensing the pen, Edison produced the ...

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 ...

Thomas Edison spent years tinkering in his New Jersey laboratory before the light bulb literally and figuratively went off. (Source: Dennis MacDonald / Shutterstock) Growing up in the mid-1850s, ...

The new method of building dwellings of small cost, recently announced by Mr. Thomas A. Edi son ... in what particulars his idea was novel, Mr. Edison said: "There is nothing par ticularly ...

The Two Brothers—a 217-ton, 84-foot-long vessel built in Hallowell, Maine, in 1804—also carried two other Essex survivors, Thomas Nickerson and Charles Ramsdell. The ship departed Nantucket ...

WYSOX — Towanda hosted Athens and Thomas A. Edison on Saturday. The Black Knights fell in their first game to Athens, 6-2, but earned a shutout victory over Thomas A. Edison, 15-0. With the split, ...