A tour of the archives beneath Schenectady's Museum of Innovation and Science is a journey through America's history with ...

Edison’s first improvement to the phonograph after the original tinfoil record was the development of wax cylinders into which recordings could be incised. These were introduced between 1888 and 1889.

With a long and storied history of pioneering audio recording, we explore America's musical history and identify the earliest known recording of a US song.

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Jim Cartwright has given up his home and garage to a collection of CDs, LPs, 45s, 78s, wax cylinders, phonographs, cylinder players, and other audio equipment we didn't even know existed.

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 ...