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 ...

The Chocolate Record Player (1902), a Stollwerck gramophone, was a novelty toy designed to play chocolate discs. Stollwerck had been founded in Germany in 1839, and by the end of the century it was ...

Inventor Thomas Edison invented incandescent light bulbs and activity photographs,gramophoneHas been improved to succeed in practical use. In order to make the gramophone's performance known to the ...

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 ...

While still relatively uncommon, it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine two Stittsville teens collecting vinyl records — it's a trendy medium that's been eating up more and more of the music market in ...