Q: These are pictures of an Edison Records Coil by Thomas A. Edison. I do not know the name of the equipment that would play it. Could you give me any information about the value of this 1929 coil and ...

In the 1870s, Heinrich Beck founded what would eventually become Beck's Brewery. At about the same time, Thomas Edison was hard at work on creating the first phonograph. It's a safe bet neither man ...

Tonight, we meet two collectors, one from Manchester who stockpiles cookie cutters, and another from Rumney with a world-class collection of working Edison cylinder phonographs that date back to the ...

One hundred years ago on a December day in 1877, the world’s first recording session took place in a laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. It was strictly a one-man show. A 30-year-old scientist, Thomas Alva ...

WEST ORANGE — Sheltered from the summer sun by the red and white tarp of a carnival tent, Jerry Fabris set his ancient machines spinning. Musicians jostled for position around him, pointing horns at a ...

Bryan College’s Alice Mercer Humanities Room and Archives has received a gift from college friends Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Downing: an original set of 10 Edison two-minute wax cylinder phonograph records ...