Ruble Sanderson owns phonographs, record players and other sound machines dating back to the 1880s. Sanderson turns 90 in January and has owned several honky tonks on Lower Broadway including Legend's ...

New York is one of the biggest exporters among all U.S. states, according to recent data from Stacker. In July, the most recent month for which Stacker had data, New York had the third-highest export ...

When Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, he gave the world its first device that could both record and replay sound. A vibrating diaphragm pressed a stylus into soft wax, carving microscopic ...

If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in ...

If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in ...

As music fans around the country celebrate Record Store Day, which started in 2008, Albert Menashe shares a look at his records and record players going back over 100 years. Albert Menashe sits in one ...

We've all heard the stories of inheritance. Whether it went smoothly or was a tug-of-war, a huge part of a family's continuation is through the legacies of the elders before them. Sociology has long ...

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, ...

Thomas Edison is often credited with being the first person to record sound. But it was in fact a Frenchman named Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville who invented sound recording via his phonautograph ...

The name Edison is well known to all of us here in the Coachella Valley. As the region's largest utility, we see their trucks, use their power, and pay their bills. However, it's easy to forget the ...

How many current consumers of vinyl records own an actual record player, would you think? As sales of phonograph records continue to swell among music lovers, new data shows substantial amounts of ...