The idea of recording something for posterity was really one of the important ideas in creating the industry of recorded sound. Great moments of culture were going by --Caruso, Dame Melba. If you ...

Many of us know that Thomas Alva Edison was the inventor of the incandescent lamp, phonograph and one of the earliest movie cameras. Some of us who studied the Wizard from Menlo Park during our school ...

I approached Randall Stross’s admirably concise biography of Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931), The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World, with great expectations. Edison ...

Each month in “The Six-Point Inspection,” Future Tense and Zócalo Public Square take a quick look at new science and technology books that are changing the way we see our world. Edison: And the Rise ...

In this entertaining biography, Stross (eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work) approaches the life of Edison from an atypical angle: where scores of other biographers have ...

We owe many of the electronic luxuries that we take for granted to Thomas Alva Edison. With 1,093 U.S. patents to his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, he is ...

A Caruso advertisement for Victor Records. The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise of Thomas Alva Edison is a two-part story produced by The Kitchen Sisters™, Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva that ...