In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) invented the tin foil phonograph – a machine that recorded sound by indenting a sheet of tin foil into a groove in a cylinder. A later wax version was ...

Thomas Edison’s “innovation factory” turned ... phonograph, and movie camera. What worked 150 years ago works now. Clearly, the lab’s setup supercharged the creativity of Edison’s ...

In 1894, Thomas Edison filmed sharpshooter Annie Oakley in his Black Maria studio. He was testing a new device called the kinetograph, an electrically powered camera capable of capturing motion.

Thomas Edison was a man of firsts ... she became the first woman ever to appear in front of a motion picture camera. Edison’s team was the first to record American Indians with a motion picture ...