Just the other day, I heard one of the earliest popular recorded sambas, Donga’s “Pelo Telefone,” from 1916 and released on an Edison talking record, probably a wax cylinder. A few years later the ...

Prior to Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877, the world had no means of recording the human voice; and the enjoyment of prerecorded music was limited to the player piano. Edison was ...

When Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, he gave the world its first device that could both record and replay sound. A vibrating diaphragm pressed a stylus into soft wax, carving microscopic ...

Today, it is hard to imagine a world without recorded audio, and for the most part that started with Edison’s invention of ...

To promote its new record label, Beck’s took inspiration from Thomas Edison’s phonograph—a precursor to the record player that used wax cylinders instead of vinyl discs—to create what it’s claiming is ...

While Heinrich Beck was beginning his brewing business in Germany in the late 1800’s, Thomas Edison was across the Atlantic Ocean working on his phonograph. Now, over a hundred years later, the Beck ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is an experimental sound ...

With more than a thousand patents to his name, the legendary inventor's innovations helped define the modern world. Thomas Edison had a hand in inventing revolutionary devices such as the movie camera ...

Edison’s phonograph embodied the logic of constraint and memory: once the groove was cut, the surface could not easily be remade. Similarly, early experiences—especially those charged with emotion or ...