The voices of seven other crew members who kept diaries while on the Endurance also feature in the documentary ...

At a time when phonographs cost the equivalent of $500 and cylinders the equivalent of $15 per in today’s coin, the opportunity to try out this revolutionary device for one thin dime was irresistible.

From a multi-layered cinematic portrayal of Jeju Island's rich history and natural beauty to a VR journey into an overlooked ...

Many of the modern pieces of technology you use everyday actually evolved out of prior inventions that, in some cases, date ...

Other tracks are being released on a floppy disk (“Having a Blast”), a Game Boy cartridge (“Welcome to Paradise”), an answering machine (“Emenius Sleepus”) and even a phonograph ...

What makes it compelling is the creative process behind the piece. The face was crafted by melting wax phonograph cylinders that had recorded the voices of the artist’s four friends, each ...

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Instead, this was simply a business that made wax cylinders to be used on phonographs as the first way to play back recorded sound. After Thomas A Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, sound was ...

In 1889, Ludwig Paul Koch, an eight-year-old boy in Frankfurt, Germany, received a present from his father: an Edison phonograph and some wax cylinders for recording sounds. The oldest known audio ...

One of Menlo Park’s first giant successes was the invention of the phonograph in 1877 ... wrapped around a cylinder. In 1876, Edison had his team work on an improved carbon microphone for ...