1 – The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise of Thomas Alva Edison Feb. 4, 2014

from The Kitchen Sisters Present· ·

Thomas Edison, the near-deaf inventor of the phonograph, was the first to capture what he called "fugitive sound waves. " From the day Edison invented his tinfoil talking machine in 1877 the competition was breathing down his neck...



Look around your daily life. There's a little piece of Thomas Edison almost everywhere. Your desk lamp. That x-ray you got when you broke your arm. The battery in your car. The movie you saw last night. The recording of this story that you're about to hear… Welcome to Fugitive Waves. Today, a story from our Lost & Found Sound series on NPR, The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise of Thomas Alva Edison.

Fugitive Waves is produced by The Kitchen Sisters in collaboration with Tom Corwin and mixed by Jim McKee