Cros mailed his paper to the French Academy of Science, where it was filed away and forgotten while Edison’s research went on. Edison, as it turned out, discovered the phonograph almost by accident.

Anniversary of the phonograph: Thomas Edison invention that changed the world. This bizarre invention has almost definitely had a massive impact on your life – and you likely don’t even know ...

Thomas Edison invented the phonograph on August 12, 1877. It "will undoubtedly be liberally devoted to music," Edison predicted with stunning accuracy in 1878. Fox News Media ...

Learn about Thomas Edison, the prolific American inventor known for his revolutionary inventions like the light bulb, ...

We're used to sound recordings. Music (in multiple genres), audiobooks, phone messages, recordings of family history, alert boops and beeps on our phones...even the happy little tune my hearing ...

Still, it’s the phonograph that’s near and dear to Kurdyla’s heart — just as it was for Edison, too. “The phonograph was Edison’s favorite invention, by his own admission,” Kurdyla says.

It's scratchy, lasts only 78 seconds and features the world's first recorded blooper. The recording was originally made on a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878.

Prior to Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877, the world had no means of recording the human voice; and the enjoyment of prerecorded music was limited to the ...

Today we celebrate Thomas Edison. It is not his birthday but the 127 th anniversary of Edison announcing his first recording invention, the phonograph. According to This Day in History “Edison ...

Thomas Edison seated beside a phonograph in 1921. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (The original image is no longer available, please contact KCRW if you need ...

Thomas Alva Edison’s self-proclaimed greatest invention, the phonograph, won him overnight fame. Journalists would marvel that such an acoustic revolution, adding a whole new dimension to human ...

When we think of Thomas Alva Edison, we think of the light bulb or the phonograph or the X-ray. But it was his work on the telegraph that initiated his good fortune; for it was his ability to see ...