Dave Dazer carefully sets a needle into a groove on a spinning black disk. After several initial pops, crackles and hisses, a male singer's voice warbles from the end of a large trumpet. "Barney ...

PROGRAMMING ALERT: Watch Fox News contributor and author Raymond Arroyo discuss this topic and more on "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday, March 21 at 7:30 a.m. ET. Though Thomas Alva Edison’s creations and ...

Edison sits beside his phonograph, 1877. * Photo: Matthew Brady * 1847: Thomas Alva Edison is born. Edison is front and center in the pantheon of prolific inventor-entrepreneur-opportunists. Alone or ...

This story originally appeared on Mental Floss. Want to make a movie? You’ll need quality light fixtures, sound recording equipment, and a good motion picture camera. Thomas Alva Edison helped develop ...

The first decade of the 20th century was, for many people, a period characterized by incredible optimism for the future. The November 22, 1908 Sunday New York Times ran an article titled, “Inventions ...

Title: Old Tom Edison Would Be Amazed at What He Started Way Back When Author: Julie A. Traxler Subject: Building on tradition, the region”s R&D labs are investigating a lot more than lightbulbs Every ...

On November 29, 1877, young Thomas Edison tested his newest invention the phonograph. It was the first time anyone had recorded sound and played it back.

Growing up in Phillipsburg, Todd Tersigni spent a lot of time hanging out with friends in the Valley View section of town. Even as a kid, he knew it was a special neighborhood. A handful of streets ...

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, ...

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up with disastrous results. As a consequence, the townsfolk all ...