Edison Records

This page is for the label, and not various companies that manufactured Edison cylinders and discs. To link to these companies, please use the following pages:

- For wax cylinders produced between 1889-1893, please refer to
- For cylinders produced between 1897-1911, please refer to
- For cylinders and discs produced between 1911-1929, please refer to
- For modern discs using reproduction label designs released after 1929, see

invented his first tinfoil phonograph in 1877, but soon shifted his attention to other projects including the development of the incandescent bulb. Only following the 1887 exhibition of a Bell-Tainter graphophone by the nascent did Edison take a more active role in the fledgling industry. Within the next two years he and colleagues had developed an improved phonograph and started commercial record production for the . Cylinders produced by the and its affiliated regional companies were not marked as "Edison Records". Only following the bankruptcy of in 1894 and the formation of a new entity, the , did production of cylinders bearing Edison's name begin. The first records that actually say "Edison Record" in the announcement or on the cylinder