Sure, you can read about the Wright brothers in a book and learn how they converted their knowledge of bicycles into the ...

The Ma & Pa Railroad Heritage Village at Muddy Creek Forks will hold an Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Social coupled with a special presentation on phonographs this weekend. The family-friendly ...

As music fans around the country celebrate Record Store Day, which started in 2008, Albert Menashe shares a look at his records and record players going back over 100 years.

Ironically, Edison was deaf yet still invented the phonograph. While he did create the working phonograph — his self-identified most important invention — the original invention wasn’t ...

Steve Kohls / Brainerd Dispatch 5 / 8: An Edison disc phonograph plays music on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, at the Brainerd Museum of Pop Culture. Steve Kohls / Brainerd Dispatch ...

“The biggest part of my hobby is radio, so I’ve probably repaired and collected about 2,000 radios over my years.” Bendickson also said he was a big fan of Edison and Columbia phonographs.

Only a month after the debut launch in April 1890, Edison ceased production, having sold only 500 dolls. Many of the remaining dolls were sold sans phonograph.

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 ...

There are original Edison cylinder phonographs — precursor of more-traditional phonographs, which were precursors of turntables — and music-box-like players that are even older.

The movie fad also brought celebrities to Edison's little room in West Orange to be photographed — including sure-shot Annie Oakley, bodybuilder Eugen Sandow (the Ahhh-nold of his day), boxer ...

But first, Edison established the Edison Electric Light Co., assigned 2,500 shares to himself and sold 500 shares to investors including William Vanderbilt. Edison’s team made two major innovations.