Just the other day, I heard one of the earliest popular recorded sambas, Donga’s “Pelo Telefone,” from 1916 and released on an Edison talking record, probably a wax cylinder. A few years later the ...
Phonographs were invented in 1877. The early ones had one needle for recording and another needle for playing. The music was recorded on tinfoil-coated cylinders using a needle to make tiny lines that ...
Did Thomas Edison pave the way for today's EduTubers? Danielle tracks the path from Edison's Christmas light demonstrations in the late 19th century all the way to the science explainer videos of ...
Thomas Alva Edison, a prolific inventor, shaped modern life with inventions like the electric bulb. His success stemmed from ...
News of Thomas Edison’s (1847–1931) death on October 18, 1931, quickly reached colonial Korea. The Chosun Ilbo reported the obituary under the headline “Death of Edison, the Benefactor of Humanity and ...
Winter is coming! And that means here in Upstate New York, the harsh weather and threat of severe snow and ice storms and ...
On a winter day in 1895, a Quaker inventor brought his movie projector into the halls of the Franklin Institute and stunned its distinguished guests. The Phantoscope, as C. Francis Jenkins dubbed his ...
From Fort Bowie to Dry Tortugas and Ice Age trail, these are the least-visited national parks in the U.S., including one in ...
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