Chemical developments originating from the West Orange laboratory included plastics and waxes for disc and cylinder phonograph records, nickel-iron alkaline electric storage batteries, and ...

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 ...

Some of Thomas Edison's inventions included: The phonograph, the very first machine that could capture and play back sound. The stencil-pen, a writing instrument powered by electricity and that is ...

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) invented the tin foil phonograph – a machine that recorded sound by indenting a sheet of tin foil into a groove in a cylinder. A later wax version was ...

THOMAS ALVA EDISON was born in the then village of Milan ... came a series of innovations in telegraphy and telephony, the phonograph, photography, and in all that appertained to the generation ...

A tour of the archives beneath Schenectady's Museum of Innovation and Science is a journey through America's history with ...

Thomas Edison’s 146-question employment test was so difficult that the inventor’s own son—as well as Albert ...

Alexander Graham Bell’s famous request to his assistant came on March 10, 1876, just days after his telephone patent was granted. Bell demonstrated his telephone and Thomas Edison his phonograph at ...

In reality, Thomas Edison Jr. had very little in common with his famous father ... No mention of the senior Edison seems complete without crediting his most impressive contributions to the world. In ...

Ohio Goes to the Movies, a signature event of the America 250-Ohio celebration in 2026, will launch in Milan, Ohio on Feb. 11, 2026.