Find out about Edison's life in West Orange, N.J. and the NPS celebration of the 150th anniversary of Thomas Edison's birth in 1997. A great site with Edison and other early phonographs. You'll find the complete rundown of Edison's process of inventing the phonograph, recording wax cylinders and much more. Edison phonographs and audio files from the old cylinders. It doesn't matter if you're 8 or 80, this is a fun page to learn about Thomas Edison.
Kids can even find experiments of their own to try out.