A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social media users — who called it “horrifying” and ...

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 ...

Forgotten to history, Thomas Edison once sought to build a "spirit phone" to allow the living to communicate with the dead.

Chemical developments originating from the West Orange laboratory included plastics and waxes for disc and cylinder phonograph records, nickel-iron alkaline electric storage batteries, and ...

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) invented the tin foil phonograph – a machine that ... no one knew that they were not hearing the whole picture, so to speak. Six months after the ...