KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - December 24, 1877. Thomas Edison files a patent for the first phonograph capable of recording and playing sound. The groundbreaking product was a byproduct of Edison’s work ...

In 1878, Thomas Edison’s early writings concerning his then-new invention—the phonograph—focused largely on the capture of spoken language – not so much on music, which the early technology was not ...

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, ...

Phonograph: Edison's great achievements often involved perfecting other people's ideas, but his phonograph, a machine to record sounds, was completely new. His first phonograph used a tinfoil-covered ...

Bruce Peterson has been on a roll since winning first prize in the eighth-grade science fair in Rowland Heights 30 years ago by demonstrating how Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. Peterson’s gig ...

One of Thomas Edison's earliest ideas for his phonograph involved recording the audio for talking dolls on a ring-shaped cylinder. You know, for kids. Now researchers have digitally resurrected the ...

January 29, 1861. Kansas becomes the 34th state of the United States, entering as a free state just months before the Civil War, earning the nickname ‘the free state’ reflecting its settlers’ hard-won ...