SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Milan’s most famous son and the world’s greatest inventor will receive his second Grammy. Thomas Alva Edison will receive a Special Merit Award from The Recording Academy this ...

It sounds primitive today, but a century ago Thomas A. Edison's cylinder phonograph was close to the state of the art. The Niagara County Historical Society received a good-as-new 1906 Edison New ...

But there’s one man – and a very strange invention we would likely never have listened to music without – who we have to thank for it all. The story of sound recording, and reproduction, began 143 ...

“If we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, beginning and ceasing at will, we should ...

Inventor Thomas Edison invented incandescent light bulbs and activity photographs,gramophoneHas been improved to succeed in practical use. In order to make the gramophone's performance known to the ...

Mark Twain wanted to bring a phonograph to Quarry Farm in Elmira during summer 1888 Twain suffered from rheumatism in his shoulder and right hand and found it difficult to write longhand Twain would ...