Forgotten to history, Thomas Edison once sought to build a "spirit phone" to allow the living to communicate with the dead.

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of ... communication through the telegraph and telephone led to his first major invention: the phonograph. After investigating acoustic ...

Equally spectacular was Edison’s revelatory exhibition of the phonograph to reporters for Scientific ... In their roles as scientist and inventor, both Thomas Edison and the fully-fledged Time ...

In 1878, Thomas Edison — already an internationally ... One of Menlo Park’s first giant successes was the invention of the phonograph in 1877. Instead of the vinyl disc we’re so familiar ...

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) invented the tin foil phonograph – a machine that recorded sound by indenting a sheet of tin foil into a groove in a cylinder. A later wax version was ...

A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social media users — who called it “horrifying” and ...

Now he was back. He'd come to witness the unveiling of a detailed, full-scale replica of The Black Maria, the world's first ...

Towards the end of 1887, he began corresponding with Thomas Alva Edison, looking to use one of Edison’s inventions, a cylindrical device for recording sound. Two years later, after Edison perfected ...

Working in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Edison gained fame through his various inventions, including the phonograph. His Kinetoscope, which showed moving images through a pinhole, was the forerunner to ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...