thanks to digital advances that allowed the sound to be transferred from flimsy tinfoil to computer. The recording was originally made on a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878.

Locked in silence for 134 years, the earliest known recording of a musical performance and a human voice, preserved on a Thomas Edison tinfoil ... of Edison's recording phonograph device in ...

The music was recorded on tinfoil-coated cylinders ... made sounds. Thomas Edison, the inventor, founded his own company to make phonographs. He also invented movies, the light bulb and many ...

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history ... Edison’s first improvement to the phonograph after the original tinfoil record was the development of wax cylinders into which ...

Thomas Edison and his team of engineers managed ... The upshot, though, was that the tinfoil phonograph, though brilliant, it was also not very useful because tinfoil doesn't sound great, and ...

It was sold by the Thomas A ... In 1877, he used his phonograph machine to record “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on a piece of ...

But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, which was how the original Edison phonograph worked ... and playback audio on tin foil wrapped around a drum.

Thomas Alva Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park whose genius ushered in a new era of light and sound for humankind, invented the phonograph at his New Jersey laboratory on this day in history ...

thanks to digital advances that allowed the sound to be transferred from flimsy tinfoil to computer. The recording was originally made on a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878.