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

Here's a story that's tailor-made for radio. Music journalist Jonathan Scott has written a book about the history of audio recording. It's called "Into The Groove: The Story Of Sound From Tin Foil To ...

December 24, 1877. Thomas Edison files a patent for the first phonograph capable of recording and playing sound. The ...

Aug. 12, 1877, is the date popularly given for Thomas Alva Edison’s completion of the model for the first phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders.

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. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR ...