Here's a story that's tailor-made for radio. Music journalist Jonathan Scott has written a book about the history of audio recording. It's called "Into The Groove: The Story Of Sound From Tin Foil To ...

Aug. 12, 1877, is the date popularly given for Thomas Alva Edison’s completion of the model for the first phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders.

Music journalist Jonathan Scott explores the early history of recorded sound: from the first-known recordings in the 1800s to the most significant vinyl records of the 1940s. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR ...