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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s not an accident that the Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys all have names typically used for people (though they’re not all named ...

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 ...

The history goes back to 1935. William Maxson of West Orange developed the idea of freezing already cooked foods and then packaging them inside reheatable containers to be served on troop transports.

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 ...