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

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

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.

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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Today in Music History for Feb. 24: ...

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

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 ...

The researchers register their conversations, rituals, singing and music on 100 Edison wax cylinder phonographs. However, the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war in 1905 forces Piłsudski and ...