WEBNo one is really sure just how Edison lost most of his hearing. Yet this man invented the first machine that could capture sound and play it back. In fact, the phonograph was his favorite invention. The first phonograph was …

WEBA phonograph, later called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910), and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and …

WEBIn the spring of 1878, Edison dazzled crowds by appearing in public with his phonograph, which would be used to record people talking, singing, and even playing musical instruments. It's hard to imagine how shocking the …

WEBSounds that have been recorded on a disc can be reproduced, or played back, by a phonograph. Phonographs and their discs, or records, were the chief means of reproducing recorded sound at home until the 1980s, …

WEBIn 1877 and 1878 plate (later called “disc”) designs appeared in laboratory sketches and patent applications nearly as much as cylinder designs. From lab records and published accounts we know that Edison had a plate …