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

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 ...

Once the basic principle of the phonograph was discovered, the years of arduous work on its development by Edison and others dealt largely with the composition and handling of materials for ...

Hello, and welcome back to This Week in History! Writing this column always feels like an adventure, especially after returning from nearly a two-month break.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Dual flush toliets reduce water usage by about 65 percent. Wood for the high ceiling in the dining area was salvaged from an old Thomas Edison phonograph factory in Wisconson. High performance ...