On December 7, 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph at the New York City offices of the nation's leading technical weekly publication, Scientific American. The following report set off ...

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Photograph by daisuke miyagi In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, becoming the first person ever to record and reproduce his own voice. In 1895, the Edison Company created one of the ...

The barn that serves as his office is packed with hard drive copies of Lomax’s records and thousands of his own vinyls — including old phonograph albums he has collected over time of Yiddish ...