This anthology assembles primary documents chronicling the development of the phonograph, talking pictures, and the radio. These three sound technologies shaped Americans' relation to music from the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gil Press writes about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation. This week’s milestones in the history of technology include a ...

Thomas Alva Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park whose genius ushered in a new era of light and sound for humankind, invented the phonograph at his New Jersey laboratory on this day in history, Aug. 12, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Charles Sumner Tainter has been ...

These days music is increasingly free—in just about every sense of the word. Right now, if you decided you wanted to hear, say, “Uptown Funk,” you could be listening to it in seconds. It’s up free on ...

MONTESANO — In Bob Carter’s private museum of phonographs and radios, shelves are crowded with the technology of the past. Glass vacuum tubes peek out from between wooden panels, burnished metal and ...

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Now considered one of the industry’s founding fathers, Douglass is one of the prototype “record men” who are at the center of “Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry,” an ...

WELLSBURG (AP) — Burdette Walters is known for his eclectic taste in antiques. He owns and operates the Friesian House Museum in his hometown of Wellsburg, population 700. He is a fan of early ...