Thomas Edison’s 146-question employment test was so difficult that the inventor’s own son—as well as Albert ...

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Bootleg recordings and music piracy have been an issue a lot longer than most people realize. It can be all traced back to a ...

With a long and storied history of pioneering audio recording, we explore America's musical history and identify the earliest known recording of a US song.

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...

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February can be a tough month. Winter settles in and doesn’t feel like it’s going anywhere, anytime soon. Snow forecasts no ...

It’s not an accident that the Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys all have names typically used for people (though they’re not all named ...

From Thomas Alva Edison’s 1898 edition phonograph to vintage cars that once were the rides of south India’s iconic movie stars and politicians, a wave of recent museums in south India has quite a few ...

Delivered weekly. Sign Up The phonograph’s potential was immediately recognized, with Edison envisioning applications ranging from dictation and education to entertainment. However, early models were ...

DAME Prue Leith is known by most for her top-class cooking skills and honest judgement on Great British Bake Off. But many people might be unaware of her other secret talent – engineering ...