Music journalist Jonathan Scott explores the early history of recorded sound: from the first-known recordings in the 1800s to the most significant vinyl records of the 1940s. Here's a story that's ...

Previously regarded as the first person to make an audio recording, American inventor Thomas Edison lost this distinction when a recording was found that had been created in 1860 by Parisian inventor ...

In the late 19th century, French inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville patented the earliest known sound recording device. But his... At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared This year marks ...

Edison's New Jersey LabNPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jack Stanley, director of the Thomas Edison Menlo Park Museum in Edison, N.J., the site of the lab where Thomas Edison and his colleagues invented ...