The oldest playable recording of an American voice will make its second public debut today (Oct. 26), when a newly digitized version is played at a theater in Schenectady, N.Y. The first playback took ...

History's on-demand playlist has expanded significantly with the release of 2,400 Edison sound disc recordings — some recorded by the famed inventor himself — that have been digitized for free ...

SCHENECTADY -- A $25,735 grant from Save America's Treasures has been awarded to Schenectady Museum to preserve a tinfoil recording that Thomas Edison created on June 22, 1878, in St. Louis. The ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- It's scratchy, lasts only 78 seconds and features the world's first recorded blooper. The modern masses can now listen to what experts say is the oldest playable recording of an ...