Feb. 19 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1878, Thomas Edison patented the first gramophone. Edison, who also invented the incandescent light bulb and motion picture camera, died in 1931.

Building on the work of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, Berliner invented the gramophone, patenting it in 1887. He was the first person to record on flat discs (rather than cylinders) that ...

Feb. 19 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1878, Thomas Edison patented the first gramophone. Edison, who also invented the incandescent light bulb and motion picture camera, died in 1931.