SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Milan’s most famous son and the world’s greatest inventor will receive his second Grammy. Thomas Alva Edison will receive a Special Merit Award from The Recording Academy this ...

Imagine if your couch or your coffee maker suddenly started talking to you — or perhaps launched into the chorus of “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain.” What would your reaction be? Consider that, ...

MENLO PARK, N.J. (WHTM) — We’re used to sound recordings. Music (in multiple genres), audiobooks, phone messages, recordings of family history, alert boops and beeps on our phones…even the happy ...

It sounds primitive today, but a century ago Thomas A. Edison's cylinder phonograph was close to the state of the art. The Niagara County Historical Society received a good-as-new 1906 Edison New ...