From elegant heirlooms to military relics, Virginia’s attics unveil hidden treasures that blend fascinating history with ...

In 1969, Motown singer Shorty Long died in a boating accident. He was only 29. A year earlier, Long had scored a top-10 hit with his novelty recording of "Here Comes the Judge," a routine developed by ...

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 … ...

Edison was busy, but another inventor related to Bell created a similar system that used wax cylinders instead of foil. Edison’s vision for his invention didn’t include popular music, which ...

He even recorded on the then-new Eiffel Tower. While sound recordings were made as early as 1859, the ones on Edison’s wax phonographs were in the first generation intended for playback.

In the late 1800s, Thomas Edison got into the doll business. Not long after inventing the phonograph, the prolific entrepreneur imagined a line of toys that would make various sounds, like a train ...

Summer encore presentations of Ongoing History shows continue until September. This time, we revisit the concept of bootleg ...

The earliest recording medium was the wax cylinder used in Edison phonographs, of which the museum has several. One particular machine went further than just playback, and allowed people to speak into ...

Plus, Karen Meyers introduces us to some unusual collectors, one who stockpiles cookie cutters, and another with a world-class collection of working Edison Cylinder Phonographs.

It is a quiet, unassuming town, but so long as the phonograph in the post office can give us Piccolo Jones’ latest composition for the low price of five cents, no foreign-born artist, turn he the ...

This photo provided by the Museum of Innovation and Science in Schenectady, N.Y., shows Thomas Edison's 1878 tinfoil phonograph. Researchers have digitized what experts say is the oldest recording ...

His invention of the Edison Standard Phonograph brought music into the homes of countless Americans, and one of his early cylinder machines will occasionally turn up in galleries like ours.