The young Edison displayed a remarkable inclination for entrepreneurship ... thus a major field for experimentation on both quality and mass production. The Edison Disc Phonograph of 1911 paired the ...

But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, which was how the original Edison phonograph worked. [Our Own Devices] did a video earlier showing one of these devices ...

The year after inventing the phonograph, Edison built a telephone that surpassed ... at his New York City dynamo factory, in 1884, the young Serbian engineer left to pursue his own dreams of ...

That changed in 1877 when Thomas Edison unveiled his phonograph. It wasn’t the first ... Nick Hornby may worry that young people aren’t committed to their music because it costs them less ...

You might be old enough to remember record platters, but you probably aren’t old enough to remember when records were cylinders. The Edison Blue Amberol records came out in 1912 and were far ...

As a young man, the list of reasons Thomas ... He had just invented what he called the Edison Speaking Phonograph. The same year, Edison developed an improved microphone transmitter, helping ...

The pugilistic conductor then threw the young Edison off the speeding train ... Edison explained how his “deafness helped you to hear the phonograph:” “My deafness has not been a handicap ...

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 ...

I muddled through about 200 pages and was ready to give up before — with a bit less ingenuity than it takes to invent the lightbulb or phonograph ... to read how a young Edison taught himself ...