Imagine if your couch or your coffee maker suddenly started talking to you — or perhaps launched into the chorus of “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain.” What would your reaction be? Consider that, ...

Ethan Hatcher from Saturday Night On The Circle went on quite the adventure and he tells us all about it! Recently I traveled all the way to the suburbs of Chicago to acquire this somewhat scarce ...

BRITT — A pair of newly restored phonographs at the Larson-Armstrong House in Britt offer more than just music. They also bring with them a combined 200 years of history. Terry Goepel of Mason City, a ...

BRITT - A pair of newly restored phonographs at the Larson-Armstrong House in Britt offer more than just music. They also bring with them a combined 200 years of history. Britt native Terry Goepel ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. An Edison Diamond Disc phonograph ...

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 ...

Q. I have enclosed a photo of an old phonograph that my mother gave me several years ago. This is a view of the cabinet's exterior with the lid open. The wood is oak and in perfect condition. The ...

With a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, the UCSB Library will digitize recordings from Thomas Edison’s record label Henry Ford’s Old Time Dance Orchestra, Teddy Roosevelt’s 1912 campaign ...

The legend of Thomas Edison failing 2,774 times before landing on a successful design for a working light bulb has made him an inspiration to flummoxed would-be inventors and innovators the world over ...