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 ...

Label from the box containing a rare Thomas Edison tinfoil recording from June 22, 1878, in St. Louis, Mo., which is now at the Schenectady Museum.

At one end of the table is the foil and phonograph, and next to it is one of the museum’s 400 wax cylinders — Edison’s next audio recording medium — and one of a dozen phonographs in the ...

Edison's impact can be felt throughout the museum, from the light bulb to the phonograph. They even have some of Edison's original patents. "It's just such a unique piece of history.

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In the shop, he combined his love of Edison with his love of woodworking to craft wooden horns for Edison or Edison-style phonographs. Guests tour The Birthplace Museum of Thomas A. Edison.

I’m not sure if the phonograph was Edison’s most important invention: he was also the co-inventor of the electric light bulb (Joseph Swan came up with it at the same time, and they eventually ...

Each innovation in phonography is represented by at least one piece in the museum’s exhibit. The earliest recording medium was the wax cylinder used in Edison phonographs, of which the museum has ...

Thomas Alva Edison, one of history's most well-known and prolific innovators, greatly impacted contemporary living by creating innovations including the motion picture camera, phonograph, and ...

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