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 ...

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

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.

December 24, 1877. Thomas Edison files a patent for the first phonograph capable of recording and playing sound. The groundbreaking product was a byproduct of Edison’s work to improve the telegraph ...

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 ...