To his amazement, the machine played his words back. This was the very start of recorded sound in 1878. A patent was issued on the phonograph on February 19th, 1878; the invention was highly original.

His “messing about” after endless trials, turned out to be successful in the form of a machine, which basically had a needle ...

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

Dan Coulter looks inside a jukebox from the 1940s in the backroom of his store, Vintage Gameroom, in Newport. (Leila ...

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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Bootleg recordings and music piracy have been an issue a lot longer than most people realize. It can be all traced back to a ...

Southern California Edison claims there were no electrical anomalies on its transmission lines in Eaton Canyon leading up to the Eaton fire. Plaintiffs in a lawsuit going to trial this year over ...

As authorities continue their investigation into the Eaton Fire, Southern California Edison said that their analysis found a "fault" on a line at least five miles away from the preliminary ...

Other inventors, such as Alexander Graham Bell, further developed the technology, introducing improvements like wax cylinders. Edison himself later returned to the field, refining the phonograph with ...

LOS ANGELES - New surveillance video suggests the deadly Eaton Fire may have been sparked by one of Southern California Edison's (SCE) power lines. The new video was obtained by the law firm ...