Years before radios and televisions were the source of entertainment in most living rooms across the country, families gathered around non-electric, crank-wound gramophones and phonographs to enjoy ...

In 1960, CBC Radio aired a celebration of the early history of the phonograph with a show called Look Back and Listen, hosted by Tony Thomas and record collector Ed Manning.

DENVER — Whenever Gary Stone receives a delivery at his Denver home, history usually arrives. "From a historical perspective, the radios, the TVs, the phonographs, all are just so fascinating to me ...

After more than a century, gramophones, phonographs, and cylinder players are prized as collectibles—and music machines. George F. Paul has never forgotten the delight he felt when he encountered his ...

A phonograph cylinder believed to contain the oldest surviving recording of the Dutch national anthem has been found during a ...

On any given day, try to avoid recorded sound and, well, good luck. Music, voice messages, the news, alerts at the Metro station — it all makes silence elusive. But less than 150 years ago, there was ...