“The three-minute pop song is basically an invention of the phonograph,” says Mark Katz, a professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of Capturing ...

If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger.

Thomas Edison, the great American inventor who also invented the phonograph. But not everyone knows the drama behind inventing the lightbulb. Did Edison REALLY invent the lightbulb?

Edison’s work in transmitting communication through the telegraph and telephone led to his first major invention: the phonograph. After investigating acoustic telegraphy and improvements to the ...

In 1877, after Edison invented the phonograph, Johnson took the machine on tour, charging crowds to drum up excitement. When Edison patented the light bulb in 1880, its exact value was hard to ...

From the invention of the phonograph in 1877 to the boom in streaming services today, the music industry has had to constantly adapt to emerging technology. In this video, we explore whether music ...

Ironically, Edison was deaf yet still invented the phonograph. While he did create the working phonograph — his self-identified most important invention — the original invention wasn’t ...

He had no idea that his invention would spawn a multi-billion dollar global music business. Edison was 30 when he patented his phonograph in 1877, but he wasn’t the first to record sound.