Years before radios and televisions were the source of entertainment in most living rooms across the country, families gathered around non-electric, crank-wound gramophones and phonographs to enjoy ...

The Chocolate Record Player (1902), a Stollwerck gramophone, was a novelty toy designed to play chocolate discs. Stollwerck had been founded in Germany in 1839, and by the end of the century it was ...

DENVER — Whenever Gary Stone receives a delivery at his Denver home, history usually arrives. "From a historical perspective, the radios, the TVs, the phonographs, all are just so fascinating to me ...

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, ...

American inventor Thomas Edison revolutionised music with the invention of his phonograph. On this day in 1878 Edison's machine was patented and all of a sudden music could be listened to at home.

After more than a century, gramophones, phonographs, and cylinder players are prized as collectibles—and music machines. George F. Paul has never forgotten the delight he felt when he encountered his ...

IT is well known that during the last few years the gramophone (invented by Berliner in 1887), in its more complete and expensive forms, has been so much improved as to have completely eclipsed the ...

These 10 technological marvels had cultural implications that its inventors could barely have imagined.

For someone who has just invented a device that would completely revolutionise music, inventor Thomas Edison doesn’t look like he’s having much fun in the above photo. I wonder what’s on his mind? Is ...