To his amazement, the machine played his words back. This was the very start of recorded sound in 1878. A patent was issued on the phonograph on February 19th, 1878; the invention was highly original.

Today in Music History for Feb. 24: ...

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Dan Coulter looks inside a jukebox from the 1940s in the backroom of his store, Vintage Gameroom, in Newport. (Leila ...

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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.

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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 ...