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, Aug. 12, ...

MENLO PARK, N.J. (WHTM) — We’re used to sound recordings. Music (in multiple genres), audiobooks, phone messages, recordings of family history, alert boops and beeps on our phones…even the happy ...

December 24, 1877. Thomas Edison files a patent for the first phonograph capable of recording and playing sound. The ...

Aug. 12, 1877, is the date popularly given for Thomas Alva Edison’s completion of the model for the first phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders.

Phonograph: Edison's great achievements often involved perfecting other people's ideas, but his phonograph, a machine to record sounds, was completely new. His first phonograph used a tinfoil-covered ...

In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the first device to ever record and play back sound. Speaking into a mouthpiece caused a metal stylus attached to a diaphragm to move up and down. The stylus made ...

December 24, 1877. Thomas Edison files a patent for the first phonograph capable of recording and playing sound. The groundbreaking product was a byproduct of Edison’s work to improve the telegraph ...

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Prior to Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877, the world had no means of recording the human voice; and the enjoyment of prerecorded music was limited to the player piano. Edison was ...