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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The museum is home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world, including works by such stylistically diverse luminaries as John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, ...

Photograph by daisuke miyagi In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, becoming the first person ever to record and reproduce his own voice. In 1895, the Edison Company created one of the ...

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

1900: Phonographs play sound recorded on cardboard cylinders coated with wax. Invented in 1885, they replaced Thomas Edison's foil-wrapped metal cylinders. 1901: Emile Berliner invents the ...

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 ...

Discover what you can see and do in our free galleries, and where you can eat, drink and shop across the Museum. Whether you're visiting us for the first time or the fiftieth, these self-guided tours ...

Southern California Edison is warning customers about a scam that has been spreading recently involving a person posing as a company representative. So far Palm Springs residents have been scammed ...