History Lesson Tuesdays: 1877 Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph.

Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a way to record and play back sound. Edison stumbled on one of his great inventions—the phonograph—while working on a way to record telephone communication at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. His work led him to experiment with a stylus on a tinfoil cylinder, which, to hisContinue reading “History Lesson Tuesdays: 1877 Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph.”