Quest for Sound: Thomas Edison's Phonograph
Overview
Thomas Edison (1847-1931) has gone down in history as one of the great inventors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He wa...
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Phonograph
Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877 opened up a world of recorded sound and created one of the great entertainment industries. The phonograph made it possible to repr...
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Phonograph
The phonograph, a device that makes audible recorded sounds imprinted within the narrow grooves of phonograph records, is made of several parts: a tone arm, a revolving turntable on which a...
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