That changed in 1877 when Thomas Edison unveiled his phonograph ... “The three-minute pop song is basically an invention of the phonograph,” says Mark Katz, a professor of music at the ...

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the United States ... Edison’s work in transmitting communication through the telegraph and telephone led to his first major invention: ...

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 ...

On December 7, 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph at the New York City offices of the nation's leading technical weekly publication, Scientific American. The following report set off ...

It is Thomas ... Edison's elegant little pen was obsolete. But Edison now was dreaming of a machine that would reproduce human speech. Only a year after licensing the pen, Edison produced the ...

The bad boy (man?) of inventing is back! And he's going to sing all about the inventions that he totally "invented".

On New Year's Eve, 1879, Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention: the electric light. Reporters came from all over the U.S. to see Edison's Menlo Park lab lit up with his incandescent bulbs.

In 1877, he used his phonograph machine to record ... of tests so that he wouldn’t risk offending Edison. Thomas Jr. dreamed of his invention being installed in every car in the nation.

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