SCHENECTADY — It is an American treasure that had been suspended in time for more than a century. Locked in silence for 134 years, the earliest known recording of a musical performance and a human ...

Just the other day, I heard one of the earliest popular recorded sambas, Donga’s “Pelo Telefone,” from 1916 and released on an Edison talking record, probably a wax cylinder. A few years later the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - October 17, 1888. Thomas Edison files a patent for the optical phonograph, a device capable of recording and replaying sound for the first time, producing a moving picture.

Thomas Edison used the hypnogogia state between wakefulness and sleep to generate ideas, napping multiple times a day and recording hallucinations to invent devices like the light bulb and phonograph.