Thomas Edison was America's premier inventor of new technologies. He was a genius at the work. His nearly 1,100 U.S. patents include the electric light, motion picture camera, film projector, electric ...

Imagine if your couch or your coffee maker suddenly started talking to you — or perhaps launched into the chorus of “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain.” What would your reaction be? Consider that, ...

Ethan Hatcher from Saturday Night On The Circle went on quite the adventure and he tells us all about it! Recently I traveled all the way to the suburbs of Chicago to acquire this somewhat scarce ...

Henry Ford’s Old Time Dance Orchestra, Teddy Roosevelt’s 1912 campaign address and a how-to on sending and receiving Morse code. These are among the thousands of recordings Thomas A. Edison’s record ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. An Edison Diamond Disc phonograph ...

When George R. Harrison, then director of applied physics at MIT, surveyed the state of the art in audio recording and playback in the November 1938 issue of ­Technology Review, he was full of wonder ...

two-channel video, 2 USBs, 2 mini HD players, 15 televisions, neon tube, Edison standard phonograph, 4 Edison Diamond Discs, 15 phonograph cylinders, 22 film reels and various objects ...

Click to open image viewer. An Edison Diamond Disc phonograph record. The disc is comprised of two songs with one on each side of disc. One side has a white circular paper label with black text that ...