From Edison to Taylor Swift, the brain is a living phonograph—recording and replaying the grooves of memory, culture, and ...

In 1889, a San Francisco tavern called the Palais Royale debuted a hot new attraction: a modified Edison phonograph that, when a customer inserted a nickel, played music from a single wax cylinder.

Subtitle on cover: The story of America's early phonograph shows. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001 ...