On December 7, 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph at the New York City offices of the nation's leading technical weekly publication, Scientific American. The following report set off ...

He was 84 years old. For the record: Edison didn't consider the commercial light bulb to be his greatest invention. He preferred the phonograph. The king and queen of Edisonia wear crowns and ...

On New Year's Eve, 1879, Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention: the electric light. Reporters came from all over the U.S. to see Edison's Menlo Park lab lit up with his incandescent bulbs.

Thomas Edison – inventor of the phonograph, among other things – issued a pamphlet called Mood Music: A Compilation of the ...