SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- It's scratchy, lasts only 78 seconds and features the world's first recorded blooper. The modern masses can now listen to what experts say is the oldest playable recording of an ...

Thomas Edison is often credited with recording the first human sound. In reality, that achievement belongs to a French ...

One hundred years ago on a December day in 1877, the world’s first recording session took place in a laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. It was strictly a one-man show. A 30-year-old scientist, Thomas Alva ...

History's on-demand playlist has expanded significantly with the release of 2,400 Edison sound disc recordings — some recorded by the famed inventor himself — that have been digitized for free ...

History's on-demand playlist has expanded significantly with the release of 2,400 Edison sound disc recordings — some recorded by the famed inventor himself — that have been digitized for free ...

Thomas Edison, long considered the inventor of recorded sound, had a rival who captured sound nearly two decades before Mr. Edison invented the phonograph. Thomas Edison, long considered the inventor ...