If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger. But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, ...

To promote its new record label, Beck’s took inspiration from Thomas Edison’s phonograph—a precursor to the record player that used wax cylinders instead of vinyl discs—to create what it’s claiming is ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - October 17, 1888. Thomas Edison files a patent for the optical phonograph, a device capable of recording and replaying sound for the first time, producing a moving picture.

As music fans around the country celebrate Record Store Day, which started in 2008, Albert Menashe shares a look at his records and record players going back over 100 years. Albert Menashe sits in one ...