Once the basic principle of the phonograph was discovered, the years of arduous work on its development by Edison and others dealt largely with the composition and handling of materials for ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph ... a research laboratory and a museum with hundreds of artifacts and inventions ...

National Museum of American History Alexander Graham Bell ... Bell on Development of Telephone Smithsonian Archives - History Div Thomas Edison Demonstrates Telephone and Phonograph to National ...

Former history teacher and new museum archivist Linda McCaffery displays a 1903 Edison phonograph recording, one of nearly 40 that reside in the Barton County Historical Society’s archives.

The museum’s new wing themed on American Culture begins ... Artifacts on view include Thomas Edison’s phonograph, Alexander Graham Bell’s graphophone, Emile Berliner’s gramophone, Ray Dolby’s noise ...

In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, the first machine that could record sound ... can be seen--and now heard--through artifacts at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

Nearly 20 years before he became president, Illinois' favorite son was facing off against then-state Auditor James Shields ...

As the only registered antique phonograph museum owner in Texas, Mr. Cartwright is fully licensed to crank up one of his many Victrolas to let you "dance to a song that was a hit before your ...

Though transfer of the materials to the museum isn’t yet complete ... in 1949 — was made by Bill Schevill using a dictaphone, a cousin of Edison’s phonograph. Hydrophones and amplifiers were large and ...

“Is it possible we’ve come full circle?” asks Clive Bell, as he observes more than a century of revolutions in recording technology, from Thomas Edison's tinfoil phonograph to pink vinyl in Sainsburys ...

The park’s museum is brimming with artifacts like several original Edison phonographs and other inventions. Take a walk along a nature trail through the beautiful 36 acres comprising the park. In ...

You do not want to miss exploring the Ellis Island Immigration Museum ... Thomas Edison created or significantly improved the ...