While Beck’s Beer was kicking off its first brews in Bemen, Germany, Thomas Edison was dreaming up the first phonograph, which he created in 1877. (His first recorded words were “Mary had a little ...

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Thomas Alva Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park whose genius ushered in a new era of light and sound for humankind, invented the phonograph at his New Jersey laboratory on this day in history, Aug. 12, ...

As even Brad Paisley has pointed out, we live today in something like the future. The past few years of continuously shrinking computers and continuously growing cities seem to suggest that he might ...

Recorded music formats – the medium via which fans consume their favourite albums and songs – have become increasingly accessible since the dawn of the 20th-century and Thomas Edison's wax-cylinder ...

In the 1870s, Heinrich Beck founded what would eventually become Beck's Brewery. At about the same time, Thomas Edison was hard at work on creating the first phonograph. It's a safe bet neither man ...

Digital streaming and downloads have dominated music consumption since the start of the 21st century, but how did fans listen to music before then? Here's a potted history. Written by Sammy ...

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What do you do when you want to listen to some music? You either pick your mobile phone or music player, pick a song you want to listen to or maybe even tune in to your favourite radio channel, and ...