The Waukegan Music Exchange opened its doors to the public Saturday in downtown Waukegan, selling new and used phonograph ...

The giant bazaar boasts both curated stalls and mountains of stuff to dig through. We get a tour, and tips, from an expert flea market shopper.

In 1877, Edison invented the phonograph, the first machine capable of recording and playing sounds. Initially, he thought of ...

Today in Music History for Nov. 21: ...

The first patent issued for an invention by an American inventor was in 1790 for an improvement to potash production, and it ...

Ben Shattuck has returned to familiar terrain – both figurative and literal – for his debut collection of short stories, The ...

The 47-year-old NASA Voyager 1 fell back on a radio transmitter it hadn’t used since 1981 to ping home base after a technical ...

A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social media users — who called it “horrifying” and “the stuff of nightmares.” Before Halloween, the National Park Service posted ...

By Mike Davis BN Columnist Howdy neighbor! It’s time for our annual Hallowe’en treat! The one time a year when I can cast off the rigors of st ...

Forgotten to history, Thomas Edison once sought to build a "spirit phone" to allow the living to communicate with the dead.