Bruce Peterson has been on a roll since winning first prize in the eighth-grade science fair in Rowland Heights 30 years ago by demonstrating how Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. Peterson’s gig ...

St. Johnsbury’s Rod Lauman lives in a three-story, yellow 1883 house that’s furnished and decorated in a brooding Victorian style. One of his three cats, a white female, is named Victoria. Within ...

Robert K. Snyder was four years old when a Lutheran pastor living next door in South Perkasie gave him a floor model Victrola that had been gathering dust in a chicken coop. The pastor couldn’t have ...

Talking tin foil -- Cylinders in business -- Entertainment for a nickel -- Emile Berliner's disc -- At home with the phonograph -- The improving gramophone -- Europe welcomes the talking machine -- A ...

SIOUX CENTER, Iowa — Dordt University professor Mark Volkers recently experienced something wholly unfamiliar while teaching his mass media class. As part of a lecture on the history of media ...

Victrola probably isn’t the first name that leaps to mind when you’re shopping for speakers – it’s a company that built its reputation on the phonograph. But great-grandpa would be amazed because the ...