Q: These are pictures of an Edison Records Coil by Thomas A. Edison. I do not know the name of the equipment that would play it. Could you give me any information about the value of this 1929 coil and ...

Thanks to Hollywood, whenever I think of a Dictaphone, my imagination immediately jumps to a mid-20th-century office, Don ...

Tonight, we meet two collectors, one from Manchester who stockpiles cookie cutters, and another from Rumney with a world-class collection of working Edison cylinder phonographs that date back to the ...

In the 1870s, Heinrich Beck founded what would eventually become Beck's Brewery. At about the same time, Thomas Edison was hard at work on creating the first phonograph. It's a safe bet neither man ...

This beer bottle includes recorded audio etched into the glass. But you certainly won’t find half an album included with your next sixer. This is a one of a kind item that took a team of engineers to ...

[Norman] spent three years developing and building his own Edison cylinder phonograph with electric pickup. We’re glad he did, and that he shared it with the world because the product is a thing of ...

For the first time, 21st-century audiences are able to hear the voice of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, one of the 19th century's most-important figures. The National Park Service announced last ...

From cakewalks to carols, historic sounds of all kinds are preserved at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Cylinder Audio Archive, home to a vast collection of recordings. The UCSB Library ...

One hundred years ago on a December day in 1877, the world’s first recording session took place in a laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. It was strictly a one-man show. A 30-year-old scientist, Thomas Alva ...