A tour of the archives beneath Schenectady's Museum of Innovation and Science is a journey through America's history with ...

Similar to the phonograph record that later followed, sound waves were turned into mechanical vibrations that etched an analog signal in the wax. Commercialized in the late 1880s by Thomas Edison ...

Art Gillham’s session made history. The technology changed who was heard in recordings, how artists approach their music and ...

A later wax version was the version on which the ... nearly 30 years before the Edison recordings. The documents found at the Patent Office suggested that de Martinville had taken airborne sounds ...

If you thought you’d never have a chance to release your hit single on the wax cylinder think again ... to build a phonograph to play back the recording. The video shows their craftsmanship ...

Edison might have been the first person to play his voice back, but he wasn’t the first to deliberately record. That honor goes to a French inventor named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.