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

Chemical developments originating from the West Orange laboratory included plastics and waxes for disc and cylinder phonograph records, nickel-iron alkaline electric storage batteries, and ...

The history goes back to 1935. William Maxson of West Orange developed the idea of freezing already cooked foods and then ...

Thomas Edison’s “innovation factory” turned ... More than 1,000 patents for iconic inventions like the lightbulb, phonograph, and movie camera. What worked 150 years ago works now.

Bell demonstrated his telephone and Thomas Edison his phonograph at the Smithsonian Castle Building during meetings of the newly formed National Academy of Sciences, headed by Smithsonian Secretary ...

He wanted to have it framed. Such use of the recorder was actually in compliance with Thomas Alvy Edison’s wish to use the phonograph to create ‘a family album’. It would include fragments of speeches ...