Ruble Sanderson owns phonographs, record players and other sound machines dating back to the 1880s. Sanderson turns 90 in January and has owned several honky tonks on Lower Broadway including Legend's ...

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 ...

News got about last week that Thomas Alva Edison had invented a phonograph record that will play 40 minutes. In West Orange, N. J., Mr. Edison verified the report. The record, which has 450 music ...

In 1889, a San Francisco tavern called the Palais Royale debuted a hot new attraction: a modified Edison phonograph that, when a customer inserted a nickel, played music from a single wax cylinder.

Seven years ago the U. S. phonograph and record industry was so sick its own backers almost gave it up for dead. Today, it is not only up and around again; it has fattened into one of the fastest ...

We know the melodies that soared through his mind, but did you ever think you would be able to hear Tchaikovsky’s actual voice? Well, it turns out you can. Take a listen to Tchaikovsky talking to some ...

If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in ...

If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in ...

You might be old enough to remember record platters, but you probably aren’t old enough to remember when records were cylinders. The Edison Blue Amberol records came out in 1912 and were far superior ...

As music fans around the country celebrate Record Store Day, which started in 2008, Albert Menashe shares a look at his records and record players going back over 100 years. Albert Menashe sits in one ...

Thomas Alva Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park whose genius ushered in a new era of light and sound for humankind, invented the phonograph at his New Jersey laboratory on this day in history, Aug. 12, ...

Thomas Edison is often credited with being the first person to record sound. But it was in fact a Frenchman named Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville who invented sound recording via his phonautograph ...