Thomas Edison (1847-1931) has gone down in history as one of the great inventors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was responsible for developing the first electric light bulb, as well as the early motion picture industry. But...

The phonograph, a device that makes audible recorded sounds imprinted within the narrow grooves of phonograph records, is made of several parts: a tone arm, a revolving turntable on which a record spins, a pickup cartridge that sends vibrations in the...

Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877 opened up a world of recorded sound and created one of the great entertainment industries. The phonograph made it possible to reproduce sounds at will, and the machine eventually emerged as a...

1 In experimental phonetics, the recording of spoken language by means of records and tapes (phonograms). 2 (also phonemic script) Writing system whose signs relate to phonological units. All alphabetic writing systems and syllabic scripts are...

The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the...

Byline: PATRICIA NELESKI BY Patricia Neleski Correspondent Wanna talk about tubes, transistors and televisions? The Tidewater Antique Radio and Phonograph Association wants to talk to you. The club, disbanded for a few years, is getting back together. This...

There was a good reason for the long lapse between Thomas A. Edison's invention of the tinfoil phonograph (1877) and his first commercial recording (1889). It was called the electric light; Edison considered his work on the incandescent lamp more important than improvements on...

A Moscow court threw out a case against the former head of music downloading site allofmp3.com and rejected the damages claims made by three major recording labels, a music industry official said Wednesday.Allofmp3.com, which was closed in late June but reopened later under a similar...

One of the inventions that put this central New Jersey town on the map could go the way of the typewriter and the horse and buggy if some lawmakers have their way.The incandescent light bulb, perfected for mass use by Thomas A. Edison in the...